Ecclesfield.
[We subjoin the following Query, as one so closely connected with the
foregoing, that the explanation of the one will probably clear up the
obscurity in which the other is involved.]
{424} _To save One's Bacon._--Can you or any of your correspondents inform
me of the origin of the common saying, "He's just saved his bacon?" It has
puzzled me considerably, and I really can form no conjecture why "bacon"
should be the article "saved."