Posted by Jeremy Kriewaldt on February 20, 2005 at 22:38:20 from 202.138.212.58 user JeremyKriewaldt.
In Reply to: Re: Pull devil, pull baker posted by Ed Kiser on February 19, 2005 at 16:14:44:
Mr Brewer says:
Pull devil, pull baker. Lie, cheat, and wrangle away, for one is as bad as the other. (In this proverb baker is not a proper name, but the trade.)
and he gives the following quote (which I must say seems to indicate that it comes from Punch and Judy but that the Baker was the subject of the fight not one of the participants...)
"Like Punch and the Deevil rugging about the Baker at the fair." - Sir W. Scott: Old Mortality, chap.xxxviii.