Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0439
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“There was a man wan time and he was going to town...”
(continued from previous page)and says he "I'll bet you two bob that you wouldn't carry it from here to me".
He was another day and he had some row with a man and at last says he. "Don't for your life get up my temper. Mind I'm no great thing with I'm vexed".
He was another time and he was talking about about a man who had a very large family. This man had twelve or thirteen children. He was explaining to them how the children all come, "First" says he "there was a son born and then there was four girls and then seven sons in rotation".
Another day he was at a football match and there were a great crowd of people there and says he "You wouldn't see anybody there is so much people here".