Volume: CBÉ 0189
- Date
- 1935
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0189, Page 308
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“There was a tinker shaving a dead man wan night...”
There was a tinker shaving a dead man wan night, and when he had wan side shaved he told for to turn over.
This wan was dead and this tinker happened to be coming of the road and they asked the tinker would they shave him. Of course the tinker said he would. The man was only just dead. The tinker had a cruel bad razor, and he had only just started when the eye opened with the pull of the bad razor. He ran away from him. He said the man was winking at him that he wasn't dead at all.