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BLACK-AMERICAN PROVERB
"ROOT YOUNG PIG OR DIE PO HAWG"
Submitter comment:
HEARD A COUSIN TELL THIS PROVERB
TO HIS SON WHO WAS DOING BADLY
IN HIS SCHOOL WORK.
Where learned: MISSISSIPPI
Subject headings: | PROVERB -- Proverbial Metaphor |