Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0433
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“There was boy and a girl going together...”
(continued from previous page)was a very bad move they had made alright. He wrote back and told her that the old woman wouldn't live much longer and do her best This went on between them for long enough but there was still no sign of the old woman dying. One day the old woman was up in the bedroom and didn't she happen on one of the letters from her husbands girl in England! She understood then the whole affair and she vowed to her that one penny of her money or one inch of her farm of land would he ever get. She lived for two years more and then it was plain to be seen that her end was near. So she sent for the solicitor to come and settle her accounts. He came and done the job and departed, and soon after this she died. When(continues on next page)