“ SIT ” AND “ SET.”
Many of the agricultural journals are sorely troubled to know whether a hen sits or sets. If some editor of dignity would set a hen on the nest, and the editors would let her sit it would be well for the world. Now a man, or woman either, can set a hen, although they cannot sit her ; neither can they set on her, although the old hen might sit on them by the hour if they would allow. A man cannot set on the wash-bench ; but he could set the basin on it, neither the basin for the grammarians would object. He could sit on a dog’s tail if the dog were willing, or he might set his foot on it. But if he should set on the aforesaid tail, or sit his foot there, the grammarians as well as the dog would howl. And yet, strange as it may seem, the man might set the tail aside and then ait down, and neither be assailed by the dog or the grammarians.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 919, 19 February 1881, Page 5
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175“ SIT ” AND “ SET.” Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 919, 19 February 1881, Page 5
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