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Show The Shamrock. The Shamrock, Ireland's emblem, is a trefoil, or three-leafed grass, much resembling our white clover. According Accord-ing to tradition, when St. Patrick landed near Wicklow, in 433, the pagan inhabitants were on the point of stoning ston-ing him to death; but, having obtained a hearing, he endeavored to explain to them the Trinity in Uniy, but they could not understand it. At last he stooped and plucked a trefoil (Shamrock), (Sham-rock), and said, "Is it not as possible for the Father, Son and Holy Ghost to be one, as it is for these three leaves to grow upon a single stalk?" The Irish were convinced, and the Shamrock Sham-rock was adopted as tho national emblem. |