Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0202a
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“There was a woman one time lived in the County Wexford.”
(continued from previous page)sleep in any house where there would be rats, or where there would be an old man saying "ocón ocón" or sleep in any house where there would be two dogs, or in a house where he would see a black cat.
John then took the loaf of bread and started off down to the harbour. He got his ticket and went down to where he saw a ship ready to sail for Waterford. He produced his ticket and got into the boat and in a few minutes she was ready to go. John kept walking around to see were there any rats in her but he could see none. Then the ship was ready to sail and everybody was sayin goodbye and waving handkerchiefs, and in a few seconds the ship was in motion and was about five or six yards away from the quay when John say two rats runnin' around the(continues on next page)