Show phrased THAT STICK TO US curious figures ot of speech that have become incorporated in our language the queer phrase my aly friend an and d pitcher was still sometimes heard in maryland aryland 14 and virginia irinia also I 1 am told in renu pennsylvania sylvania until within recent years but would seem peem now to be obsolete hereabouts Is it stilt still in use elsewhere pitcher had the meaning of chum crony or camill familiar a r s acquaintance e preferably perhaps s said a id of or to one of the opposite sex the saying little pitchers have long ears and the briefer shakespearean pitchers have ears cars furnish possibly some anal oga here in maryland aryland ll a long lease of life or at all events of memory was secured for the phrase by its use in the name of a patent of land in baltimore county granted in 1 1709 the ibe full name of which my sweet girl 3 sty friend and pitcher has met the amused glance of many a conveyancer conre yancer searching the indices of our land records the same day when this patent was issued out of the land office of maryland the patentee received patents for five other tracts and the cheerful spirit of an expectant or recent bridee bridegroom toom is perhaps reflected in the names lift chose for them for three of the others are here is life without care and love without fear with little am I 1 content and hug me snug one regrets to let learn burn that within the year yea our patentee sold all six of the parcels nearly acres for current money for some years in the earlier part of this century the indices of the laud land records of baltimore county give not only the names of granter and grantee but the names of the tracts conveyed and very whimsical these often are bedded many such names ps as megs meg recompense pense or johns ewt chance or repentance Reperita nce 11 or folly we come across such curious titles as the following bad roads at midnight come by chance cuckold makers palace fingal and ossin hobnob at a venture harrys delight in Anny Garden poor jamaica mans plague silent cyphers of africa seek no further f for or better B e tt Z cant be round found and gen roch beau the friend of md and therefore the friend of universal liberty ret ming ning to the phrase my friend an and d pitcher it disinter is interesting st ug to note that although the word ward pitcher in the sense in m which it is h here re used is not to be found so GO far as I 1 ano itkov in any ally dictionary the espres i was as certainly not unknown in eigle some 53 55 5 5 ca cars ago for it is introduced in one of ingoldsby legends the house warming WET ming in the following characteristic pass passage sage room for say my lord proud rs earl retires awhile from bourt courte ly cares wha kocl his wife poor a ai s girt girl and pitched her neek neck and heels down stars stairs proving in hopes to wed a aler rd er if not tier tt friend at least lier her pitch pitcher pai baltimore timor N NF news F |