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Has a Horn and Doesn’t Toot It

Judy from Huntsville, Alabama, recalls her stepmother’s words of encouragement: He that hath a horn to toot and tooteth it not, the same shall not be tooted. This faux-formal bit of advice goes back at least to the 1850s. A variation goes: Toot your own horn, but deliver the goods. This is part of a complete episode.

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