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Thread #129897   Message #2921416
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
05-Jun-10 - 04:51 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Poor Old Woman/Housewife's Lament
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Poor Old Woman/Housewife's Lament
Charlie, probably nothing to do with it, but a Mrs H. A. Fletcher was in India in Kipling's time. She wrote poems and tales redolent of India, and some verse of all kinds.
One of her books was titled Here's Rue for You. Printed in Calcutta.