"Sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite"
Is a saying held over from the American colonial days. The "sleep tight" portion of this old saying (which may have originated back in Shakespeare's time) had to do with tightening the ropes that supported the mattresses on old rope beds. The ropes sagged over time from use, so had to periodically be tightened to make the bed firmer. The second part of the saying is exclusive of the first part. It refers to bed bugs that sometimes lived in the wooden frame of the bed (not the straw mattress as is commonly thought today). The two parts of the saying appear together, because they were both concerns of the time.
Dulcimer Wisdom
"Middle age is when the broadness of the mind and the narrowness of the waist change places."
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Saint Joseph's Cemetery, the only known United States cemetery facing north-
