Tiger Woods

[Baker, John]

        Although "The Barefoot Boy" was characteristic of James Whitcomb
Riley's works, it was written by John Greenleaf Whittier.  Text is at
http://www.unshod.org/ebbfhike/jgw01.htm.

John Baker


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Subject: Re: Tiger Woods

Wilson Gray writes:
>I've just heard one of our loocal newsreaders describe Tiger Woods as
>"looking  _tan_." It reminded me of the time that a black student
>walked barefooted into the student center at Washintoon U. in St,
>Louis, moving a white student to quote, "Blessings on thee, little man!

>/ Barefoot boy with CHEEK!" stopping himself before finishing the line
>with "... of tan!"

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Might also have been thinking of /Barefoot Boy with Cheek/, a humorous
book by Max Shulman  that came out in the '40s.  [Was Barefoot Boy  one
of Jas Whitcomb Riley's?  I remember having to memorize it in grade
school, but can't now call up any more lines.] A. Murie