Note 077 — {52} CHAPTER III

The name Pain Court (Short of Bread), and the similar appellations of Carondelet (Vide Poche—Empty Pocket), and of Ste. Geneviève (Misère—Poverty), are said to have originated in the good-natured raillery between the French of the several settlements. They probably point also to the want often experienced by a trading people who neglected agriculture. For further facts relative to the early history of St. Louis, see Croghan's Journals, in our volume i, note 134, and André Michaux's Travels, in our volume iii, note 138.—Ed.