"His feet are in the cornfield"?

[Wilson Gray]

Via Ben Zimmer:

"1906 Nov 23 _Wilkes-Barre (Penn.) Times_ 7/1 "Step on the old man's
feet," said the Kid [sc. Kid McCoy to Jack O'Brien]. "_His feet are in
the cornfield_, and you will get his goat more by keeping on top of
them all the time than by stabbing him in the food chopper."

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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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