Volume: CBÉ 0265

Date
1935
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0265, Page 0489

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0265, Page 0489

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    so they got out rageous & [ ?] to throw him out in the door but the little fellow threw one fellow into the corner & threw the big fellow in on top of him & he went out & he left a [ ?] on the table from the south west [wind?] & he said he would call again
    So the next night or so he called again and when he went in they were going to shoot him but he done the same with him so that night rain & wind came & blew the whole house away. So the next day the three of them put their heads together and they said they would go in to the town and put up a house to make gold. So they did they went into the town and they started to make gold and they had Seamus all the time at the furnace and the other two were always out drinking. But Seamus had a little mug that was all gold that his mother left him and she dying and that was the last thing they had to do was the little mug and they had to turn on it for the gold. They went and they threw it into the furnace
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    Item type
    Lore
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant