Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0066
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- (continued from previous page)If she was down in Arklow an or near the Wicklow lands
The Matilda and her cargo was wreckage on the strand
The sad news now reached Arklow and went around the town
that a vessel called the Jula
had sank and went right down
The eells and ducky divers saw the signal from the deep
And the lifeboat crew at Arklow can't be wakened from their sleep
let her and other lifeboats be published to the scetch '[?]'
And I'll pray all drowning sailors will come in Wickhams reach
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“If a person is out at night and has lost his way...”
If a person is out at night and has lost his way, all he has to do is to sit down and take off this clothes and turn them and put them on again and the fairies won't harm him in any way.
