Show origin of windfall WIn the origin of the expression d windfall which Is 1 used when one to refer to a streak of good luck dates back to the time lime of william the says the republic at that time it was a criminal offense to cut timber in the british forests without royal consent all that could be gathered tor for fuel or other purposes ees was w tuch such limbs as a the wind would happen to break and cast to the ground on this account the peasants hallea hailed a great wind storm a as a blessing because became it was apt to cast enough of windfalls wind falls for winter firewood from this old time forestry cu bulom tom comes come the modern application of the th expression at one time it was wa decreed that only such limbs and whole trees rees at as should tall fall during the th three r ee summer um mer months could be used as firewood woo d but the anju injustice a lice of th the e act was so plainly apparent that no attempt was ever made to enforce it |