[He says, I've shoveled acorns enough in there to keep the family thirty years, and if I can see a sign of one of 'em I wish I may land in a museum with a belly full of sawdust in two minutes.]
This is a sentence from a novel 'Baker's blue-jay yarn' by Mark Twain. And
That scene shows a blue-jay gets angry because he keeps dropping acorns in some hole but the hole isn't getting full no matter how hard he tries.
I looked up the meaning of 'land in' and the dictionary says that means
1. to make a landing in something 2. to end up in something, such as a mess.
But I don't understand even though knowing the meaning of both 'land in' and 'museum'. What does the sentence above mean?
Best Answer
It's using your second definition of 'land in', meaning to 'end up in something'. ... I may end up in a museum with a belly full of sawdust in two minutes.