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[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Dan Goodman <dsgood at iphouse.com> wrote:

> Or "bob wire" "barbed wire."  (Hudson Valley dialect; 1950s, don't know
> for sure that "bob wire" is still used in Ulster County, etc.)
>

The Yale Literary Magazine - Volume 73 - Page 67
books.google.com/books?id=JRQBAAAAYAAJ
_1808_ - ‎Read - ‎More editions

A _barb-wire_ fence left the marks of its murderous teeth in Arlington's
clothes, and he laughed.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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