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Author of Some Puzzling Remnants, published in 1903 in Roachburg. A bell tower on the Cathedral of St. Gorboduc consists of four twenty-foot-high cherubs squatting in a circle, supporting a Buddha with a clock in its belly; Samp speculates in his book that the Buddha is, architecturally speaking, nothing more than a "very fat cherub" [St. Fidgeta & Other Parodies, 34-6].
Samp is coarse corn meal. Bowen says the the word is derived from the Narragansett Indian language, suggesting that it is an eastern (U.S.) word. "People from Connecticut and Massachusetts had been the original settlers of southern Michigan so the word could have had a local circulation there, I suppose. Or John may have invented it for the sound (see words)."
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