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   “There a fellow living in Whitechurch...”

   

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   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"

   

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2. The Borrowed Days

   

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   (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.

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   Date

   March 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Jem Coady