Grant Barrett said
"hold 'er Newt, she's headin' for the barn!" allude to controlling a horse that's starting to bolt for a favorite destination.
A horse who is hard to steer away from the barn is known as "barn sour". Growing up, our first horse was terribly so. It was hard to get her more than a couple of hundred yards away from the barn into the pasture. But, once you turned her around, it was one fast and fun run back to the barn. 🙂
Grant Barrett said: This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy had corned beef and cabbage, this little piggy had none. At least, that’s the way a caller from Sebastian, Florida, remembers the children’s rhyme. Most people remember the fourth little piggy eating roast beef. Did you say it a different way? Tell us about it.
Damn, this was a long time ago, but in the Midwest (in the 50s) I learned the rhyme as:
This little piggy went to market
This little piggy stayed home
This little piggy had roast beef
This little piggy had none
And this little piggy cried "wee wee wee wee" all the way home.
This sequence started with the big toe. Each toe in turn was held between two fingers and shaken back and forth as the rhyme was recited. This was most often done by a mother to her young children when cuddling. At least that was the ritual in Wisconsin.
Concerning piggy toes, page 420 of this book has 'meat' and 'a bit of bread and butter' substituting for 'beef'.
This little piggy went to market
This little piggy stayed home
This little piggy had roast beef
This little piggy had none
And this little piggy cried “wee wee wee wee” all the way home.
That's the version Whitman published in "Little Golden Books" and consequently would be considered "right" by most people.
Whitman also won out ever the Bible when it came to the story of Noah and the ark. Most people think there were two of every species.