I think it was a madman in Dickens' Nicholas Nickelby - - he was too shy to talk to people, so he threw cabbages at them. I'll have to see if I can find it - - somewhere toward the end I think.
Carolyn
On Jun 30, 2007, at 12:08 PM, D. Barton Johnson wrote:
P.S. But (rhetorically) who is that man throwing cabbages over the wall?