Most of us, at some time in our lives, having persisted in the pride that goes before a fall, have been reduced to "eating humble pie." The mixed feelings of the moment were y too many to allow of our Jing any curiosity regarding the original partakers of this unappetizing fare; but in retrospect it may interact us to know that they were the retainers fo the wealthy medieval lords whose homes lay near England's one-time forests and whose favourite dish wa? venison Only the choicest morsels of the deer's flesh went to make this Jdctieaey, and the inferior portion sand so-called refuse, known as the "ambles," were eagerly appropria fed by the poor for the making of jumble pies; hence "umblepie" came to suggest first poverty and after~ wards any form of degradation, and the name has undeservedly acquired fan aspirate in its marsh down the Another phrase with an interes ing history is "a wild goose chas The term was first used to describe a kind of horse-racing which resem bled the follow-my-lender flight peculiar to wild geese, Two horses july ran a hundred and twenty yards; then the jockey who had the Tead was at liberty to take whatever ground he pleased, the other being bdund to follow a specified yuace or else be whipped-in b3 judges who rede py; the passing and repassing of one ancther went until one horse fell out throyrh
ether equally overdriven" ani sheer exhaustion, thus ivi 73) final lead. Fortunately, the cruelty fof this process at last. became evident, and the definite course and winning-post familiar at the present Jday were decided upon,
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