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Show rKooo ' How It Started By Jean Newton , rKXK00CK0KKX "SHEEPS' EYES" TP S-' that he is casting "sheep's eyes" is a popular characterization characteriza-tion of a lovesick swain. Naturally, it is assumed that the reference is to the vacuous and seemingly helpless expression that Is the sheep's! We learn, however, that this is merely a coincidence, the phrase having had its origin in an ancient Welsh wedding custom. Beginning centuries ago it was long the practice among the country people peo-ple of Wales, for the groom at a wedding to present the bride with a sheep's head. A substitute, when the young man's means did not permit of this, was two bright buttons called "sheep's eyes." It is now long since this custom went into oblivion, but we have a relic rel-ic in t lie expression "sheep's eyes" applied ap-plied to lovers or those who act as if they might be thinking of going together to-gether to the altar! (Copyright.) O |