And ef I git time I'm a-goin' to give it a few licks o' paint.

And she never hit him a lick amiss, either.

This was not only used by the settlers for themselves, but for their stock, which ranged freely in the woods; to provide for the latter a tree was chopped down and the salt placed in notches or small troughs cut in the trunk, making it what was called a lick-log.

Because the mice lick meal at Rome, you say.