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Show Drinking Lamb's Wool, Ono would think that "Lamb'a Wool" could mean nothing olso hut the fleece of tho lamb. In point of fact, tho words aro also a corruption of old English, and aro thn namo of an ancient beverage which, If grateful grate-ful and comforting, was hardly a too-total too-total drink. Tho gathering of tho apples ap-ples every autumn was in ado tho occasion oc-casion of a great feast, for which thcro was specially concocted a drink mado from alo and tho pulp of roasted apples, ap-ples, with tho addition ot spices and sugar. This bovorago was called "La macs oblml" (the day of apples), which In popular speech was converted convert-ed Into "Lnmasool," and this again to "Lamb's Wool." |