ANOTHER CORRECTION: Allen Dawley notified us of another mistake
in the answers we printed from a quiz on quotations we took from
the Pennsylvania magazine.

The quote “Took us four years, but we finally finished drawing
the line” was attributed to Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon,
commenting on finishing surveying the Mason-Dixon line.

We originally had that the Mason-Dixon line was completed in
1787. However, it was actually done in 1767.

TOO TRUE: We got a poem about the travails of the month of
January.

“Twas the Month after Christmas”

Twas the month after Christmas, and all through the house

Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse.

The cookies I’d nibbled, the eggnog I’d taste

At the holiday parties had gone to my waist.

When I got on the scales there arose such a number!

When I walked to the store (less a walk than a lumber).

I’d remember the marvelous meals I’d prepared;

The gravies and sauces and beef nicely rared.

The wine and the rum balls, the bread and the cheese

And the way I’d never said, “No thank you, please.”

As I dressed myself in my husband’s old shirt

And prepared once again to do battle with dirt.

I said to myself, as I only can

“You can’t spend a winter disguised as a man!”

So … away with the last of the sour cream dip,

Get rid of the fruit cake, every cracker and chip.

Every last bit of food that I like must be banished

‘Til all the additional ounces have vanished.

I won’t have a cookie, not even a lick.

I’ll want only to chew on a long celery stick.

I won’t have hot biscuits, or corn bread, or pie,

I’ll munch on a carrot and quietly cry.

I’m hungry, I’m lonesome, and life is a bore.

But isn’t that what January is for?

Unable to giggle,

no longer a riot.

Happy New Year to all

and to all a good diet!

Our thanks to the Elk County Cooperative Extension’s Robin L.
Kuleck who forwarded this masterpiece from one of her colleagues,
Extension Nutrition Educator Mary Alice Gettings in Beaver
County.