Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0044
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“There was a small farmer wan time and he lived in Carrig on Bannow...”
(continued from previous page)There was a small farmer wan time and he lived in Carrig and Barrow and he was what you'd call a struggling farmer, and he only had wan horse and this horse used to do all the work for him and he had for about twenty years. Begor a man when the horse was about twenty five or six didn't he die and the poor man was in an awful way and didnt know what to do or how he would manage as he had nothing to get in the springs work and he had no means of getting another horse and the neighbours around were not very charitable to him. He kept the horse for a couple of days anyhow as he didn't like burying him as he have no horse at all then either dead or alive. He told this neighbour about it anyhow and the loss he was at and didn't know how he was going to live at all. "Well" says the neighbour to him "I'll lett you what to do now. Skin the horse and sell it and you'll get a pound note for the skin and maybe you would happen on another old horse for the pound that would put in the(continues on next page)