ProQuest?; Wolf Tickets (1969); more rhymes

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Sorry, but I had thought my last post was a private message. I'll try to
combine things here.
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PROQUEST
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Have they done ANYTHING this year? It's February!!
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_http://www.il.proquest.com/products/pt-product-HistNews.shtml_
(http://www.il.proquest.com/products/pt-product-HistNews.shtml)
The Boston Globe--scheduled for January 2005 release
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WOLF TICKETS
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(PAPER OF RECORD)
10 May 1969, THE AFRO AMERICAN, pg. 31, col. 5:
"The administration (Howard University--ed.) has been selling (wolf)  tickets
with their TRO's (Temporary Restraining Orders) all year; and the  students
just cashed in one of those bad boys!
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RHYMES
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MISS MARY MAC (1990), pg. 112:
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Don't say ain't or your mother will faint,
And your father will fall in a bucket of paint.
Sister will cry, brother will die,
And they won't come back till the Fourth of July.
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FOLK-LORE FROM ADAMS COUNTY ILLINOIS (1965), pg. 638:
It is a sin,
To steal a pin;
It is a greater,
To steal a potater (potato).
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(NEWSPAPERARCHIVE)
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     _Dunkirk Observer Journal _
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=9cbxNIiVHYuKID/6NLMW2vcwb3StNMPzB69E74FCRpgpjA1V0fY8OkIF+CsZYmrz)
Friday, June 28, 1889 _Dunkirk,_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=city:dunkirk+a+sin+to+steal+a+pin)  _New York_
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=state:new_york+a+sin+to+steal+a+pin)      ...I suppose,
thAt "it is A SIN TO  steAl A PIN, even though it  mAy bo.....tbe courAge TO
sign her  uAme TO it. "A SIN gle enclosure  of is the lArgest..

Pg. 3, col. 1:
He wrote that although it seemed like a trifling matter it had always
troubled him--on the principle, I suppose, that "it is a sin to steal a pin,  even
though it may be greater to steal a 'tater."
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(PROQUEST HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS)
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_NOTES  AND COMMENTS._
(http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=78765735&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=1107241406&cli
entId=65882)
New York Times (1857-Current file).  New York, N.Y.: Apr 23, 1871. p. 3 (1
page) :
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As in this particular case the hair was taken from merchants after it had
been imported and made an article of merchandise, the jury didn't think it worth
 while to split any hairs about it, but concluded that if it was a "sin to
steal  a pin," it must be wrong to take chignons.
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FOLK-LORE FROM ADAMS COUNTY ILLINOIS (1965), pg. 637:
If you step on a crack,
You'll break your mother's back.
or
Step on a crack,
Break your mother's back.
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If you step in a hole,
You'll break your mother's sugar bowl.
or
Step in a hole,
Break your mother's sugar bowl.
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If you step in a line,
You'll find a dime.
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If you step on a nail,
You'll send your father to jail
or
Step on a nail,
Get your father to jail.