Volume: CBÉ 0221

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   “There was a smith one time and he was goin' home late at night...”

   

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   called the carpenter and asked him for his money or if he hadn’t that he would have to give him something to do that he couldn’t do. The carpenter came along and he had a bag and it was full of bits of timber shavins and blocks and things of that sort and he turned the contents of them out on the grass and he told the divil to make a wheelbarrow out of them. The divil caught hold of them and threw them up in the air and a wheelbarrow fell down, the finest wheelbarrow that anybody ever saw. “Well” says the divil “I did that fairly well too, and you’re booked for the down train and there is no return ticket”. Then the divil called in the tinker and asked him how he was and had he the ten pounds ready. The tinker said he hadn’t, but he took out a little

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   History Edit

   Date

   13 July 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Máirtín Leighlin