Flash fiction: For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Did Ernest Hemingway write these famous six words?

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Feb 1 22:51:53 UTC 2013


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Hugo <hugovk at gmail.com> wrote:
> (El Paso Herald, December 14, 1915):
>
> "BABY buggy

So, the use of "baby buggy" in Texas predates my childhood.

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