Subject: Re. Salt on a Bird's Tail
Date: Feb 18 11:12:57 2001
From: David Chelimer - chelimer at qwest.net
I think the phrase can be attributed to Jonathan Swift's "Tale of a Tub"
(1704), in which he writes, "...As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon
their tails."
David Chelimer
Seattle
chelimer at qwest.net