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RE: a hawk from a handsaw?



"I am but mad north-northwest: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk
from a handsaw."  From Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii.  

A "hawk" was a tool of a plasterer, and a handsaw obvious.


Danny Swicegood
Hendersonville, NC