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1. Buying and Selling Long Ago (ar lean)

   

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   so many goods as people do now because they had home-made articles. People had to go to Kenmare to buy goods to markets in very olden times but in latter years they had the markets in Sneem bridge. Pedlars & 'hucksters' went around long ago selling tea & other articles. Three men went around here as pedlars. One of them was Patsy Lyons, the other was Tim Sullivan & the other was Hamilton man. The people made their own sweets. They were called Bull's eyes. They were made with sugar & butter. The people brought a great many things from the pedlars in exchange for potatoes wool, flannel, eggs & other things. They had not much money in olden times & the people gave the 'hucksters' a littke meal & potatoes which they called a "pevcilin"[?]. In the summer the country women sold sea grass which they gathered in the strand. Long ago there was a woman from Gleesk whose name was Mrs. Foley and one day she came to Sneem with a sand-basket full of eggs which she carried on her head. When she took them out some person put a large stone into the basket and she carried it across the mountain to Gleesk

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