Folk wisdom: "Treat 'em Rough !" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:21 PM -0500 3/16/07, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>>    1970 George MacDonald Fraser _Royal Flash_ (Rpt. N.Y.:
>>  Plume, 1985) 156 : I don't mention this in a boastful way, or
>>  to suggest that with a chap like me it's just a matter of
>>  catch 'em young, treat 'em rough, roger 'em hard, and they
>>  eat out of my hand.
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>Unless the word "roger" above means "to copulate with"

that would be my reading [I think 'screw' might be a more accurate
gloss], although I admit 1970 does seem a bit late for that usage

>, I don't see this
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