From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an ceathrú lá is fiche de mí Deireadh Fómhair, scríobh Ross Clark:   
      
    > Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788-1879)   
    > "American writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated   
   magazine   
    > in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book." (Wiki)   
    >   
    > And   
    > "Mary had a little lamb..."   
    > which appears for the first time in her book _Poems for Our Children_ (1830)   
      
   Now that’s an enduring contribution to the world.   
      
    > And   
    > _Northwood_ (1827), a novel about slavery. (She advocated repatriating the   
    > slaves -- well, to Liberia, anyway.)   
    >   
    > And   
    > Cookbooks! (and Household Hints) _Mrs Hale's Receipts for the Million_   
   (1857)   
    > "Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty Five Receipts, Facts,   
    > Directions, Etc. in the Useful, Ornamental and Domestic Arts..."   
    >   
    > Exhausting.   
    >   
    > The language link seems quite insignificant by comparison.   
    >   
    > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Josepha_Hale   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)