Volume: CBÉ 0189
- Date
- 1935
- Collector
- Locations
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- (continued from previous page)I was fishing down in a place called Ballinlee of another day.
'Twas a nice warm day in the month of May. I threw the bait into the water and laid the rod down on the bank. I took out me pipe and went to take a smoke.
Twasnt long until I warred the rod bobbing, like something was pulling at it. I jumped up and pulled. A terrible strain came and meself and rod and all were pulled down the river. There was a big sceach tree about a hundred yards down I ran for that and wound the rod and line around it a couple of times to make it fast.
I ran to a house about two hundred yards away for help. Two men from the house came with me. As soon as(continues on next page)