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Did Kipling actually write what Matthew Parris has ascribed to him, or has MP slightly misquoted from 'The Gods of the Copybook Headings'? Alastair Wilson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Lycett" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, August 01, 2009 12:23 PM Subject: dog, kipling and proverbs 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? __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4295 (20090731) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com