Volume: CBÉ 0189
- Date
- 1935
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0189, Page 249
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“There a fellow living in Whitechurch...”
(continued from previous page)again. She kept sending him for water nearly all night; and as soon as he'd bring she'd spill it out again, for she only want to get him out of the place.
Some time after there was twins in another house in the neighborhood. When this man heard it he say "Oh god help the fellow who was drawing the water"
- (Laethannta na Bo Riabhaiche)
On the 1st of April the ould cow put her tail on her back and said "I don't care now when March is over" But March borrowed three days from April and the weather came so bad in the three days that the ould cows died. They call 'em the Borrowed Days of the days they skinned the ould cows.
