HIT: GEN: Stumper

[Jamie Boston <jamieb@DCN.DAVIS.CA.US>]

Thank you to all who responded to my query which was:

" I am stumped!  As a KidsConnect volunteer I received this question
tonight.  I have looked in quote sources both print and electronic to no
avail.  Has anybody ever heard of a poem that is anything remotely like
this??? I can find sources for the quote but not a poem.

"What is the title of the book that contains the poem by Benjamin Franklin
entitled "A Fish and a Guest Stink After Three Days"?

        Many people gave me the source of the saying (Poor Richard's
Almanac) and Franklin's probable sources for his saying.  If, however, you
reread my query above, you will note that I already had located these.  What
I wanted to know is if anyone had ever seen it in POEM form.  One person did
suggest that it might be in the book Ben and Me.  I did not find it there -
but it was a quick peruse, so that still could be a place to look.
        My probable answer to this child is that I cannot find any resource
that indicates that Mr. Franklin ever wrote a poem about the subject, but
that in Poor Richard's Almanac, he printed sayings and that this was one of
them.
        Again, thanks for the help - if you-all can't find the answer it
probably doesn't exist.
______________________________________
Jamie Murphy Boston, Librarian
jamieb@dcn.davis.ca.us
A KidsConnect Volunteer
SCORE Teacher-on-Assignment
Davis Joint Unified School District:
Birch Lane Elementary, 1600 Birch Ln.
&  Pioneer Elementary, 5215 Hamel St.
Davis, CA 95616
530-757-5395/5413(FAX); 757-5480/5423(FAX)
Visit the Birch Lane Home Page at http://www.birchlane.davis.ca.us
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