Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:22:32 EST

From: Boyd Davis FEN00BHD[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UNCCVM.UNCC.EDU

Subject: Re: How the cow eats cabbage?



A parallel citation that may help:



'Tomorrow we'll go down to city hall and tell Mayor Osbert Gribbons where

the cow ate the cabbage.'



Dialogue that the author wants to reflect the colloquial speech of a grand-

mother (upper class) in East Texas small town. In context, the grandmother

will be blunt (a parallel in NC might be 'where the bear sat down in the

buckwheat')

Bell, Nancy. 1996. Biggie and the poisoned politician. St Martins, p.30.



(I have been noting in desultory fashion where and how authors of genre

literature are using 'local colour'; this particular book includes a number

of similar sayings.