CLAPPEDEPOUCH.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 17, 21 July 1928, Page 15

CLAPPEDEPOUCH.

3 ■■'•■ = 3 In the olden times, long before fathers = | had cheque books, a man's purse was far = a more important than now. The heavy I I purse tf a great knight on his travels § | would bo Jauntily carried by a trusty _ I squire, who would make short work of a E 1 would-be thief.; But the merchant. Jour-,': § neylng, alone, would fearfully hide his I = fat wallet In his clothes; for roads were ._■ s long and; infested with robbers, and woe § | to him if prying eyes caught a glimpse _ § of its inviting' bulge!' s i In old Ireland the beggar at the cross- £ jj roads carried a boll in one hand and a■ I E clapper In :the other, noisily calling at- E i tention to his purse, which was as lean E = as the - pouoh-shaped fruits you see § | straggling up the stem of the wild flower E I that is called Shepherd's Purse. And .1 E so, in Ireland, this plant is called Clap- § = pedepouch. . . §. § Shepherd's Puree spreads like wildfire i _ in seme places, and farmers regard It as 5 I a pestilent weed, robbing them of their E _ proflts. They have yet another name | I for it—Pickpocket § _]iiiHiiHiiiiiiiiiiiimiiitiii»ii"i>" 11111111 l