ALL RIGHTY.
YES, I THOUGHT HE WAS USING AN EXPRESSION THAT MEANT A REAL , LIVE WOLF.
YOU KNOW, LIKE "A BIRD IN THE HAND"......
SO,  TJ WAS REFERING TO SLAVERY AND NOT A WOLF.
PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT DIFFERENCE IT MAKES  WHETHER THE "WOLF" IS HAD BY
ONE EAR OR TWO>
THANKS.
DFM
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Subject: Re: "the wolf by the ear"


> Dear DFM,
>        Perhaps you should get a copy of the previously mentioned article
in
> the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.  "TJ," as you put it,
would
> not have been cavalier in his choice of words.  It sounds like you think
the
> phrase refers literally to a wolf--"TJ" was refering to the insitution of
> slavery.  Details make a difference in the world of historians, and this
> detail does make a difference.
>
> Cynthia Hasley
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