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Thread #170202 Message #4174378
Posted By: and e
12-Jun-23 - 07:08 AM
Thread Name: Origins: How old is The Little Fly ?
Subject: RE: Origins: How old is The Little Fly ?
Years ago, as a child, I heard a rhyme, more forceful than elgant, yet pointg to a moral by its very force. Somewhat expurgated for the sake of delicate ears, it went thus:
The fly flew into the grocery store, A place he had often been before. He speckd on the sugar, He specked on the ham. He didn't give a damn for the gorceryman.
May 1926, "Man and His Ills", California and Western Medicine, pg 670, vol XXIV, No. 5.