That Nation Might Live

[Gene C]

I am re-reading this book. One of the things I liked about it are some of the quaint old fashioned sayings, at least I think they were some-what from the time period of the early 1800's. The book is about Herndon's interview with Sarah Lincoln, Abraham's step-mother.

In describing the crowded wagon they rode on Sarah remembers, "Between all of us and the property, there wasn't room to cuss a cat without getting fur in your mouth."

"If a man'd been doing anything low down, Abe'd make him feel meaner than a suck-egg dog about it."

Johnny Cash even wrote a song about a Dirty Old Egg Sucking Dog.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYNK8A_bXwA

And this one, "God selects unpromising cradles for his greatest and best servants."