Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0045
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“There was a small farmer wan time and he lived in Carrig on Bannow...”
(continued from previous page)spring's work for you" "Begor" says the man that owned the horse & wouldn't like to skin him as he was with me so long and worked so long and honest with me & wouldn't like to hurt him now as I never hurted him." You're only an ould fool says the other man The horse is dead and gone now and he has no feelings good or bad in him and you're a poor man and you'd like to throw away a pound instead of having it in your pocket." The man thought for awhile anyhow. "Begor" he says in the latter end "I believe I will skin him" "So he went home and started on the horse, and he was hungry by this time and so he would cut a piece off the horse and eat it into him thinking that it was corned beef. He skinned away and ate away until he was full and the horse was nearly skinned. He had the horse almost skinned now except there was a little bit about the size of a half crown still clinging to the back of the horse. When he came to this with the knife the horse started to kick and bawl and wanted to(continues on next page)