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   From: jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid   
      
   When I first heard the word "papoose" in the forties, it meant a   
   swaddled infant in a backpack.   
      
   So both the "child" sense and the "carrier" sense are new to me.   
      
   --   
   Joy Beeson, U.S.A., mostly central Hoosier,   
   some Northern Indiana, Upstate New York, Florida, and Hawaii   
   joy beeson at centurylink dot net      http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)