Volume: CBÉ 0189

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1. Tom and Mary

   

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   There was an ould couple living near the Barracks (Adamstown) long ago. Mary and Tom they were always called. Mary was a bit dull. (There is a dull wan (person) in every family nearly around this side of the country). The lived in a small little thatched house. Tom worked for a farmer, and Mary kept the little house.
   Wan evening Tom snared a rabbit and he brought it home for Mary to cook it. Near day when Tom cam in to the dinner Mary had the rabbit cooked.
   Tom was ating away when Mary says:- "How do you like the soup, Tom?"
   "Begol 'em mon, it's all right, Mary," says Tom, "only 'tis a bit hairy." Marry cooked the rabbit, fur and all, and never skinned it.

   Another time Mary was knitting a

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Collector

   • Mary Delaney