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<br>         ADS-L Digest - 25 Jun 1998 to 26 Jun 1998             98-06-27 00:00:16
<br>There are 13 messages totalling 468 lines in this issue.
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<br>Topics of the day:
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<br>  1. Who was Titmouse?
<br>  2. Hello; Skidoo; Rock and Roll
<br>  3. "incent" (2)
<br>  4. California
<br>  5. "grow" and "incent"
<br>  6. DARK L
<br>  7. News from the American Council of Learned Societies
<br>  8. "grow"
<br>  9. portobello (3)
<br> 10. FWIW: The Language of Fund Raising
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<br>Date:    Thu, 25 Jun 1998 23:16:08 -0500
<br>From:    "Donald M. Lance" <engdl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SHOWME.MISSOURI.EDU>
<br>Subject: Who was Titmouse?
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<br>I've exhausted myself and three refrence librarians trying to locate a
<br>reference.  The following quote + quote is in some editing I'm doing.
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<br>I found the following in the monthly magazine of San Francisco, The
<br>Pioneer, for April, 1854:
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<br>"Pike" is a genius. He is wrapped up, body and soul, in the state of
<br>Missouri. He forms a class in America which is sui generis. He is as
<br>clanish as a Scotchman. Wherever he goes, he carries with him those
<br>unmistakable characteristics which mark him as from Pike County. His very
<br>gospel is but a paraphrase of Titmouse's poem:
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<br>        Pike, O! Pike, it is my name
<br>                Missourer is my nation
<br>        Pike County is my dwelling place,
<br>                And Pike is my salvation!
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<br>One of this genus "Pike," driving a team across the "perairie" one pleasant
<br>day, met another driver....
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<br>The article in which the quoted quote appears is by Allen Walker Read, and
<br>we're publishing it in the Missouri Folklore Society Journal.  The article
<br>is about 'Pike', as you might have guessed.
<br>
<br>I don't need any more information on Pike -- just a lead on Titmouse.  I've
<br>been too busy with other things to learn how to do sophisticated web
<br>searches like Barry Popik and others on ads-l.
<br>
<br>When Pike County, Missouri Territory, was established in 1818, no western
<br>boundary was specified -- no doubt because the area hadn't been surveyed,
<br>and Kansas and Nebraska hadn't even been thought of.
<br>
<br>BTW, is 'piker' used nowadays by people under 40?
<br>
<br>DMLance
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