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Don Elliott said:
J. R. - I know a guy in England named Gerald Blas who will sell you a pig. And at a very convincing price that you can't resist. But he can't ship it in a poke. And he won't ship it at all. He'll just go to the local Western Union office in England and collect your money. Then he will disappear - only to re-appear as his alter ego Martin Collins.
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Which is why my old dad said that I should not buy a pig in a poke. Not that I always did what he told me. Far from it. But I can say that I have never bought a pig in a poke. The closest I came was when Mason-Dixon TRA bought that roast pig from Big Daddy for the National Meet picnic. Man was that good!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Wouldn't a pig or six have fun down in that soggy bottom below your two sheds ? I remember that I couldn't set up my tent to camp there because it was too soggy. [/QUOTE]

The Soggy Bottom would make a great waller. (That's wallow to you, Randall) I'm sure that since this cottage has been here (1790) a few hogs have been over there. The family I bought it from had a goat over there, though.

The Bottom will be quite soggy when this two foot snow melts, I bet.
 

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Twosheds said:
(That's wallow to you, Randall)
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:lol:

Not to worry, John, there are enough Ozark hillbillies in my background that I know what a hog waller is. And that 'holler' isn't a verb. And there <span style="font-weight: bold">is </span>an 'r' in 'wash'.
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Actually had a tough time as a kid, had to remember to talk like the locals or get teased about it. Ask for a 'sody' in the wrong town and see what you get!
 
I think I hear Ned squeelin. Oh there's that pig reference again.
 
tow sack? tote sack?
 
"tow" is the waste fibers leftover from processing flax or hemp; so a "tow sack" is a sack made from those fibers. You may have also heard the term "tow-headed", refering to someone whose hair is roughly the same color (kind of a dark yellow, similar to "dirty blonde").

'Tote' I'm not so sure about. It means "to carry", but sources seem to disagree on it's origin. I like the theory that it came from Africa (as in "Tote that barge, lift that bale"), but apparently OED disagrees.
https://www.etymonline.com/index.php?l=t&p=16
 
TR3driver said:
Twosheds said:
(That's wallow to you, Randall)
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:lol:

Not to worry, John, there are enough Ozark hillbillies in my background that I know what a hog waller is.
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<span style="font-weight: bold">Ah! The truth is out. This explains many things.</span> :devilgrin:
 
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