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Show The Origin of "Windfall." Did you ever have 9. "windfall?" and did you wonder why you called it so, when the wind had nothing at all to do with your good fortune? It was to the peasants in William' the Conqueror's Conquer-or's time that an actual windfall meant good luck. They were forbidden, forbid-den, under severe penalty, to cut a forest tree, but whatever the wind blew down was their own; hence their greatest fortune was a heavy wind storm and its consequent "fall." And hence the name we give our modern good luck. Bible Text on Horse's Grave. In the center of a field at Waverhill, Suffolk, England, is a large flat stone covering the grave of a mare which died in 1852, inscribed as follows: "Polka. She never made a false step. Ecclesiastes iii. 19th verse." A reference refer-ence to chapter and verse shows tha following: "For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts, even one thing befalleth them; as the one dieth, so dieth the other." This ia probably the only instance of a text from the Scriptures appearing on a Ktemorial stone to an animal. |