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Originally Posted by victauria
And if I didn't want to carry a purse, would it be ok to ask him to just put a couple of essential items in the sporran for me?
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Just like today's pockets, its contents would be many and varied but contemporary - coins, musket balls, fire-making paraphernalia and even, amongst cattle drovers, oats and onions for whistling up a black pudding on the trail (they bled the cattle and used the blood)
In earlier days I'd imagine he had enough to fill it with, wouldn't you?