Volume: CBÉ 0221
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“There was a man once and he had an evil eye.”
(continued from previous page)silly and was that way until the day he died. The third man hadn't an hour's luck from that time out. All of his horses and cattle died wan by wan and his five children and his wife died and the Poor man didn't know what to do with himself and finally he kindly died of a broken heart.
Peter Doran was another day and he went into a dairy and the people of the house were churning. There was no wan in the dairy when he went in so Peter went to get a drink of buttermilk when he was drinking the mug happened to hit the covering of the bad eye and stripped it and his eye lit on the cover. He waited in the dairy for some time but no on came near him so he went out and off home. When the people of the house came back they started to churn, but if they(continues on next page)