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FW: a hawk from a handsaw?




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From: Helmut Mueller <hmuelle@earthlink.net>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:51:41 -0500
To: "R. O. Bierregaard, Jr." <rbierreg@email.uncc.edu>
Subject: Re: a hawk from a handsaw?

I believe it is from HAMLET..& GOES SOMETHING LIKE: I am but mad
north-northwest..when the wind is southerly I can tell a hawk from a
Hearnshaw
Hand saw is a corruption of this & it means heron.
All of this from memory. I am getting old, so it may not be completely
accurate



-- Helmut C Mueller

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> From: "R. O. Bierregaard, Jr." <rbierreg@email.uncc.edu>
> Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 14:01:17 -0500
> To: carolinabirds@acpub.duke.edu
> Subject: a hawk from a handsaw?
> 
> OK, C-birders. Birds in literature quiz time. Where's this quote from
> and what does it mean?
> 
> -- 
> Rob Bierregaard
> Biology Dept.
> UNC-Charlotte
> 704 333 2405
> http://www.bioweb.uncc.edu/bierregaard