Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 073
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“I was going to the Co. Kilkenny wan day and I went into a road...”
(continued from previous page)John Joulsters the coachman. I asked him did he knowand old woman that was drowned in a shower of feathers. I didn't know if she was dead or not. He told me to go down farther and I saw a man thrashin peas (pays) and a pay flew through a stone wall and killed a dead dog that wasn't dead at all. I went into a huxters shop and I got a penworth of frogs beasens and cats butter and I stirred it with a hens tooth and a cats feather. I swallowed it all down in me belly together. Big fellows roll you up head and heels. I was sent off on board a man-o-war with a bloody red rag and a bloody red flag tied out of the end of her. I stood in the(continues on next page)