Posted by Peter Ceresole on November 03, 2009 at 13:13:23 user PeterC.
In Reply to: literary allusions posted by Peter d'Owdon on November 02, 2009 at 18:07:48:
And well,' says he, 'and how are your arms and legs and liver and lungs and bones afeeling now?
I don't know where it comes from, but it sounds very much like something from one of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas- say a ship's doctor in 'HMS Pinafore'. It's the sort of thing that, when AR was writing, children would know.