Show DOES DOBS BOSTON KNOW THIS fb rho I 1 W was too ton much to for this mo man thoma MAY of new hartley northumberland thum berland little anticipated that hla his sudden demise would give rise ri 6 so to an a U interesting etymological question says the london globe lie he died because he be had swallowed too many 11 carlins or dried peas in accordance with north country custom on carlin sunday which falls one week before palm sunday and la Is celebrated by the eating of dried peas jeaa in token of lenten fare this custom the correspondent ot of a contemporary declares to a a survival of the pagan bean teas feas i bhoge A hose name has been perpetuated to tr describe the annual outings given by employers to their journeymen A more reasonable derivation of 0 the term bean beam feast appears however to be from the north country term bean for or the bird known elsewhere as the bean ghowe gaoat anser aner te se getum or stubble goatse derivation Is confirmed by the alternative use of the term I 1 to a printers bean feast I 1 ways way meaning stubble and a s I 1 a stubble goose fattened after the harvest harrest and furnishing the chief dish dials at the entertainment which concluded th the year a toll the same bird Is also do de scribed ascribed as a harvest goose a survival of the arvist gos goo of old en english glish A yount young wife and an arvist gos goo moche mocha gagil with both sas a the proverb pursuit of the evasive goose of the through his various ver 1 bal disguises thus takes un farther and farther from the carlens carll ns or dried peas of lent lant indeed between a bean feast and the lenten fare of dried peas the only possible connection would seem to be that either indulged in to excess may have serious results a |