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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Macabre somerset proverb about chickens

A Capon... By Mai-Linh Doan via Wikipedia  This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 1.0 Generic license.

"The chicken crams the capon." - Somerset

Ray 1768


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[This is actually very grim - a capon is the carcus of a castrated male chicken.  Thus my reading is that it is saying that a weak will dine on the flesh of another who is weaker... Nice... Bit like the whole mad cow thing as well...]


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