Also Geese, A. This piece of attempted wit is fortunately obsolete.
1840.
| O! I wish I was a geese, | |
| All forlorn, all forlorn, | |
| For they eat their grass in peace, | |
| And they ’cumulate much grease, | |
| Eating corn. | |
Daily Pennant, St. Louis, Oct. 11. |
1842. Oct. 11. [A feet.] See COON.
1842. The humbug “sticks out a feet.”—Phila. Spirit of the Times, March 12.
1844. The contest will ultimately be settled over “a feet” of pipe.—Id., Feb. 7.
1846. [Mr. Brinkerhoff] informed us that he spoke more in sorrow than in anger. Well, that may be so. Yet I could not see his “sorry.” His “mad” stuck out “a feet and upward.”—Mr. Wick of Indiana, House of Representatives, July 1: Cong. Globe, p. 1042, App.
a. 1852. The affectation sticks out about a feet, as we say in Dutch.—Dow, Jun., ‘Patent Sermons,’ iii. 103.
a. 1853. His head is very like a deer’s, barring the horns, which are “about a feet” in length.—Id., iv. 258.
1857.
| A lady with a crinoline was walking down the street, | |
| Her feathers fluttering in the air, her hoops stuck out a feet. | |
‘Crinoline in Rhyme,’ San Francisco Call, April 1. |
