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1. Granduncle's Adventure (continued)

   

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   path between two sloughs & the two pickets took after him but they ran into the slough & were near being drowned & when they got back they said a bogger of a croppy was after trying to rob them & they fired at him but missed him. Her brother got into old Tom West's a Protestant Quaker & stayed there till morning.
   Ould Tom West told himself that one night when he was up with my grandfather (a smith in Rosheenmore) for a shoes for a pony he saw a man in the ditch with a white night cap & only one eye as big as a pewter plate in the

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   • Thomas Ellis