[lit-ideas] Hereabouts
- From: david ritchie <profdritchie@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2022 12:16:55 -0700
I couldn’t find her to ask. She’ll be back though. Sure as eggs is eggs.
Looked into the origin of this. Here’s what the New York Times said on May 13,
1858, "" As Sure as Eggs is Eggs."
This is by no means an elegant or very perspicuous saw, and never was to our
taste. It has become more contemptible than ever in our estimation since a lady
friend, yesterday, sent us three specimens of what her nine pound hens had been
producing. They have laid-not set-egg samples which the whole barn-yard
community ought to emulate.”
And beneath? "The Panic.
The panic in financial circles has been so severe and long continued that its
effects will probably be operative and visible for many months to come. And, on
the whole, we think it has done, is doing, and will continue to do, much good.”
And then this: “Capital—Some one asks why the people of England, in the time of
Charles 1, were like David Crockeet? Because they first made sure they were
right, and then went ahead.”
Since I’m preparing something on nineteenth century wit, I was pleased to find
at least the last bit.
David Ritchie,
wondering if responding to himself and writing about conversations with dead
chickens are allied ailments in
Portland, Oregon
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