Quiz

[mustardandmi]

What is a 'Lamas Lamb'?: What native plant connects sheep with money? and Who has let the sheep go into the meadows? The theme is 'Sheep for the 3 answers-thanks if you can help.

[cashier]

Last one Little boy blue?

[twix123]

2nd Mint? Mint sauce and Mint money.

[frugalfred]

There's an article in Wikipedia on Lammas Day rituals. Detyails there of Lammas Lamb

[twix123]

Possibly an offering of a lamb made on 1st August 'Lammas Day'

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lammas

[frugalfred]

Exactly, twix

[slaney]

A Lammas lamb seems to be one born late in the season, a late summer lamb..
http://www.kilda.org.uk/blog/entry.aspx?ID=664e43e1-3eed-4261-91e7-9e17f8a22eee#.U11nEFVDU8k

A extract from this book suggests it might be applied to children as well...
"Little Polly, when she arrived, was adored by the whole family...
She was what was known there as a Lammas lamb, the last,
late-comer, of a family..."
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks09/0900901.txt

[JandyAF]

Shepherd's Purse is the connection between sheep and money. It has tiny heart-shaped seedpods which were once thought to resemble medieval shepherds' bags.