The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-01-09
OLD SAWS.
Homely and Quaint Sayings of
Olden Times.
They Take Us Back to the Days of Our
Childhood-A New Amusement
for the Long Winter
Evenings.


we oldyn tyne are all SO perfect for
brevity, truth and wisdom that the
more we reflect on the forcible mean
ings and warnings they convey the
more we love and respect our good an
cestors who originatedthem-providine
they always .'practiced what they
preached
1t is an exquisite delight which soon
becomes fascination to sit down quiet
ly and think out of our memory's store.
house these condensed chunks q. wis
dom which were burned into us when
we were young and thoughtless and
which have lain there dormant ever
since.
They take us back again to days OF
childhood and once more we see and
hear our parents and grandparents and
kind old neighbors, and cross ones, too,
firing the chestnuts at us in the hope
of saving us future troubles and costly
experiences
OF course we never appreciated them
nor understood one-tenth of what the
maxims meant-if we had we might he
a good deal happier now, but of that
the less said the BETTER and mo use
crying over split milk"
How the old saws bubble out of our
think tanks when we try to remember
them. There seems no end to the pro-
cession.
Experience is dear teacher. y
Fools learn by their own experience,
wise men by the experience of others. -
How often those two have been
drummed in our ears Fools laugh at
their own folly-A fool and his money
are soon parted-A fool for luck Fools
never die" Our cross old neighbors
must have told us those.
Take the word dog" and you have:
Barking dogs never bite-Let sleels-
ing dogs lie--Like dog in the manger--
Dog eat dog-Hair of the dog to cure
it's bite-Gone to the dogs-Give dog
a bad name and then hang him
Whipped cur breads the lash," and
more.
Take the devil" and there come
more maxims about him ethan you can
shake a stick at.
Whipping the devil around the
-stump- The devil is not as black as
he's painted-The devil take the hind
most-Speak of the devil, he's sure to
appear--The devil takes care of his
own-The devil finds work for idle
hands to do-The devil was sick, the
devil monk would be; the devil got
we'll, but devil a monk was he-The
devil Turks behind the scross- Each
man for himself and the devil for us
all-Hell is paved with good intentions
When hell freezes over the devil can
skate Fighting the devil with fire, y
and something about the devil going
to church and seeing saint. but we've
forgotten it.
The word sear" calls forth; Eager
ears hear ything-In at one ear, out
at the other-A flea in his ear-Little
Pitch RS have big ears
'sPDt" gives us: "a watched pot
never boils-Pot calling the kettle black
Pot luck-What makes pot will
make a pot lid," and many others.
The children must have been as
troublesome long ago as they are now.
For instance: .'Spare the rod and spoil
the child though in latter days this is
properly reversed. "a burnt child
breads the fre-Children and fools
speak the truth-Children should be
seen and not heard-Boys will be boys
You can't expect old heads on young
shoulders-All work and no play makes
Jack dull boy Children SHOULD not
play with edged tools-Don't send a
boy on a mans errand- Making a, pig
of himself"
Nothing seems to be said about girls
on babies; probably they were too good
to need any advice or correction Of
domestic animals the horse and dog
(already stated) and sheep and hogs
are noticed, leaving the gentle COW out.
Locking the stable door after the
horse is stolen Eating his head off -
For want of nail the shoe was lost;
for want Of shoe the steed was lost;
for want OF a steed the rider was lost
MUCH cry and little wool--Pulling