Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0170
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“It was either at a fight at the Harrow or at Tubberneering that nearly all the English were slain...”
(continued from previous page)he recognized the officer whom he saved from the pike in Wexford so he laid down his tools and ran over to him to shake hands with him and he saying "I am found out at last" "You are surely" replied the officer "but it will not be for your hurt or damage." He then turned to his woman and introduced the carpenter to her as the wan who saved his life in Wexford, and "now" he says" he is afraid he will be given over to be killed". "But" he says "we shall show him that kindness and warm heartedness are not confined to his own country." Soon after this man who was once a rebel got a better situation through the influence of this gentleman and lived a happy life in London among all his old enemies.
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“I have a little sister she lives in the ditch...”
I have a little sister. She lives in the ditch and if you got her she gives you the itch?- A nettle.(continues on next page)