"Daniel H. Weiskotten" wrote:
>
> Oops! Forgot to ask if anyone else has come across the the behavior
> suggested in the line from the poem:
>
> For needs must scrape the goose-flesh with a lacerating cob,
> That from a frost-encrusted nail hung pendant by a string.
> My father was a frugal man and wasted not a thing.
>
> Now THAT sounds disgusting.
>
> Dan W.
Dan,
I think a nice stack of dried cobs in the corner--or the practice of
taking ones own to the outhouse-- was the norm. I've never heard of
reusables <G>
--
Dan Mouer
http://saturn.vcu.edu/~dmouer/homepage.htm