“THE DOG WILL WALK IN YOUR BEANS“
by John Brewer Gibson (1907-1983)
Many years ago, a “tramp” came to our home late in the evening. The man said that he had Intended to be traveling Route Sixty-six, but that he had somehow been misinformed and so wound up down here in the boondocks.
My wife set him a hot bowl of beans on the edge of the porch. But the old man wanted to talk. He ignored our advice to eat and prattled
incessantly with a heavy accent. At length our big young pup that was everywhere at once ran across the corner of the porch and stepped
right square in the bowl. The man instantly turned his attention to the business at hand.
And it became a family tradition to cool a kid’s excitement or loquacity by the prosaic statement: “The dog will walk in your beans.”
(from Remember Me, John Brewer Gibson 1907-1983, Book #823, Richland County Genealogy Society, Olney, Illinois)