from the Feeback Editor's column in today's Times
Dogged
Sorry to bring this up again (so to speak) at the breakfast table, but there
is something that I’ve been meaning to put right for a few weeks.
In one of his Saturday columns Matthew Parris ascribed to Kipling the words:
“The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to
her wallowing in the mire.”
Not so, said a reader, Francis Bergen, a week or so later; “the Apostle
Peter wrote those words first, nearly 2,000 years earlier”. Not so, cried
half a dozen other readers a bit later on; Peter was merely quoting a much
older Hebrew saw, which is in the Book of Proverbs (xxvi, 11), at least as
regards the dog and vomit. Any advance on Proverbs?
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