Latch Post

Famous quotes containing the words latch and/or post:

    “There’s something I should like to ask you, dear.”
    “You don’t know how to ask it.”
    “Help me, then.”
    Her fingers moved the latch for all reply.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    A demanding stranger arrived one morning in a small town and asked a boy on the sidewalk of the main street, “Boy, where’s the post office?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Well, then, where might the drugstore be?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “How about a good cheap hotel?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Say, boy, you don’t know much, do you?”
    “No, sir, I sure don’t. But I ain’t lost.”
    William Harmon (b. 1938)