Times Independent | 1927-01-27 | Page 6 | How it Started

how it started by JEAN NEWTON SOUR GRAPES TID you hear smith say he L would not take a western man sour gra crapesi pesI say 1 ao frequently in common speech we hear this phrase used with reference to person who tries to deprecate something which he cannot have the comes to us from one of fables the fox and the grapes according to this story which has been traced hick to the collection made by Pau edrus the ancient greek a fox vas strolling on a hot summers day through an orchard full of luscious grapes he saw high upon a vine a particularly ripe and de licous looking bunch just the thing to quench his thirst lie drew back a few paces and made a jump for it but just missed it two or oliree times more lie triad without success then he turned and left them sneering those grapes are bourl and EO in our speech toddy when people pretend to despise something that is beyond their reach we think of old in the fable tint Is thousands of bears old and sa bour grapes t