Date:  Tue, 24 May 1994 10:34:49 EDT

From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>

Subject: King of the Hill



My recollection from New York City in the early and mid fifties jibes with

Wayne's (and with Randy Roberts's); K of the H involved a mound and a

horseless joust/push-off, not a simple pile-on.

--Larry

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Robert Kelly wrote:



>kids pile on top of each other = king of the hill



--In my neighborood in San Antonio in the late fifties and early sixites,

"king of the hill" actually required some sort of mound. The king was able

to push everybody off but himself. As a medieval accounts of Fortune's

wheel demonstrate, no one can be king of the hill for long.





Wayne Glowka

Professor of English

Georgia College

Milledgeville, GA 31061

912-453-4222

wglowka[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]mail.gac.peachnet.edu