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   “There was a family of people living in Galbally by the name of Laffan...”

   

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   on the rick with him that he could do all the work himself. The bossman didn't like to leave him on the rich but he insisted and the farmer gave him his way. So the work started and this man, he was only a small man and he was also very thin, but I was advised not to mention his name, started off to work. Everybody was looking at him and it didn't appear that he was doing anything extraordinary, but used to walk around the rick now and again with a pitch of straw. He made the finest rick that anyone could lay eyes on and all by himself at least nobody else was visable. Some of the men thought they heard him talking to himself one time and they were over to the side of the rick in order to hear what he was saying and after some

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   History Edit

   Date

   13 July 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Seán Dillon