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Thread #1739 Message #4150110
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
12-Aug-22 - 09:12 PM
Thread Name: 'Aha' She Cried and Waved Her Wooden Leg...
Subject: RE: 'Aha' She Cried and Waved Her Wooden Leg...
Good to see this old friend of a thread again.
I was interested to see Lighter's find:
"Evening World (N.Y.C.)(June 9 1906), p. 6 [without explanation]:
"'Aha!' she cried, in accents wild,
And waved her wooden leg."
That gives it a date early enough to rule out some of the suggestions. And that other link in the same post is suggestive - I wonder if someone wrote about the unlucky Sally Ann waving her wooden leg after being shot, and they appeared in some local newspaper and launched the passageā¦