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Heh, heh
HAPPY NEW YEAR, BRAN
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In the meantime....If you can't take him by the fetlock take him by the robe. Happy New Year  LITTLE NEMO!!!
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It must have been a favourite saying of Louisa May Alcott's..she used it a few times in her stories.
I've taken time by the forelock and fired off a query to the LMASociety... Thats good tsuwm, I have been searching for the answer too. Never thought about it before, I guess because I understood the sense. I've spent an interesting afternoon researching the phrase about 'fetlock time'. You're right, Luke...its hard to fine a definition on the net. But, when I'm not heading off on another tangent (like time....there was so much about that subject) I did read about....shackles and clogs that were attached to a horse or camel or donkey's leg or fetlock, to slow or restict movement. And of cousre...when a horse goes lame, its usually from an injury to its fetlock, so I'm guessing that would slow down its time, going places! Anyway....looking forward to getting the answer back.
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I also must have skipped over the phrase, because it made
sense in context and it rang no bells in the old noggin.
But it is a curious one, and so much on the ankle of the
horse: everything from pictures to diagrams and so forth.
Quite a time spent here as well.
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Yes I have this great collection of weirdiness. Winsor McCay. About fetlock, it sure is an all-horse thing. Link
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Not sure what you are really looking for but I found this:
The word fetlock literally means "foot-lock" and originally referred to the small tuft of hair situated on the rear of the fetlock joint[1].
Which is visable in one of the images one post up.
But maybe that not at all what you look for.
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Saw those pictures. Glad you posted them again, however.
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>looking forward to getting the answer back.
to me, the question is whether LMA was playing with words (was she wont to do that?) or was she just confused.
but I despair of getting an answer from the LMAS, as my email to the Societal Secretary bounced and the only other contact listed is their webmaster. but I'll try to resend next week, when folks should be back from their holidays.
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Well--in those days, in merrie Olde England and other places as I understand it, tugging at one's forelock was done by...people who considered themselves servants, as a sign of submission (and other things, mayhap). So if you have a person (and conceivably a horse though the control is far less certain) by the forelock or a horse by the fetlock, to me that indicates that you have control over the grabbee. I don't recall reading/noticing this phrase in L.W. either, but I'd think it was a safe guess to say that the character meant that she wasn't going to let time get away from her.
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