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Thursday, March 15, 2012
RB'S QUESTION OF THE DAY: March 15, 2012: Have you heard any “legends,” “stories” or “yarns” about why we’re suppose to wear green on Saint Patrick’s Day? Please share them with us.
Have you heard any “legends,” “stories” or “yarns” about why we’re suppose to wear green on Saint Patrick’s Day?
Our Great-Grandad was an Irishman. Supposedly he told our dad this story that once long long ago Ireland was over-run with monkeys. It got so bad with them even coming into the gardens and houses and stealing food, that the government decided to have a hunting season on them and give each hunter a bounty for each monkey that they killed.
So the hunt began on March 17th and seemed to be going well, but when it came time to count the monkeys, they found they had killed as many Irish children as they had monkeys, and that wasn't good.
So from then on, Irish mothers were to dress their children in green on March 17th so the hunters could tell their children from the monkeys.
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Our Great-Grandad was an Irishman. Supposedly he told our dad this story that once long long ago Ireland was over-run with monkeys. It got so bad with them even coming into the gardens and houses and stealing food, that the government decided to have a hunting season on them and give each hunter a bounty for each monkey that they killed.
So the hunt began on March 17th and seemed to be going well, but when it came time to count the monkeys, they found they had killed as many Irish children as they had monkeys, and that wasn't good.
So from then on, Irish mothers were to dress their children in green on March 17th so the hunters could tell their children from the monkeys.
Yep, that's what G-Grandad told us.
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God bless.
RB
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