Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0478
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“I was another night out for a walk...”
(continued from previous page)heard stories of the dead coach but I had never seen it, and was hard set to believe it. "Well" says he "since you mentioned the dead coach there are such things, and to tell you the truth it was the first queer thing that I myself ever seen in my life.It was about thirty years and I was only a young nipper of a lad but I remember it the very same as if it was only yesterday. I was coming home from the shop where I had been with eggs for my mother and when I was on my way back I went into a farmer's haggard where they were threshin corn with a horse machine. I never had seen a horse machine before, and of course I couldn't pass it by especially because there were a(continues on next page)