Date:    Thu, 26 Feb 1998 08:34:21 -0800
<br>From:    Devon Coles  dcoles[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HORIZON.BC.CA 
<br>Subject: Re: RE "Till the last dog dies"
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<br>Grant Smith wrote:
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<br> Peanuts strips . . .  "Boy, that kid will stick around until the last dog
<br> is hung."
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<br> "until the last dog is hung" must be considerably older than Peanuts.  I
<br> remember my father using the phrase (late 40s in Bellingham, WA).
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<br> Yes, indeed. My 78-year old mother tells me this expression was around in
<br>the 1920s (Toronto, Ontario) and she remembers it vividly as 'til the last
<br>dog is dead and the rope is put away.'
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