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[Bethany K. Dumas]

On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Laurence Horn wrote:
>It would be interesting to try to pin down the replacement pattern--by the
>late 40's in New York, the only version around our part of town was "catch
>a tiger by the toe", and I was amazed when I learned the existence of the
>earlier one.

I grew up with the earlier one (40s se TX) , but our version ended like
this: "If he hollers, make him pay - fifty dollars every day."

Bethany