Volume: CBÉ 0370

Date
1937
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0370, Page 0287

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    seisean lá amháin leis an bean; "Tá eagla orm go gcaithfidh mé mo bhó bheag a dhíol agus gan agam ach í. Tá deireadh na bpighneacha caithte, is fada go Lughnasa go rabh a dhath sa choibhreann agus ní bhéidh na páistí agus muid féin beo leis
    an ochras."
    "Maith go leór," ars an bhean, "creidim go gcaithfear a díol agus is mór an truaighe sgaradh léithe."
    "Níl aon neart air", ar seisean.
    D’imthigh ’un aonaigh ar maidín leis an bhó. Shiubhail leis go socair go dtáinig sé isteach go dtí ceann an mhargaidh. Casadh buachaill air 'na seasamh
    agus buideal in-a lámh.
    "Tá tú a’ gabhail ’un aonaigh lé do bhó duine mhodhamhail," ar seisean.
    "Tá", ars an fear.
    "Goide mar dhéanfá malairt eadar í féin agus an buideal?"
    "Órú thaisgidh", ar seisean, "goide an mhaith a dhéanfadh do bhuideal beag
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    19 June 1937
    Item type
    Lore
    Folktales index
    AT0563: The Table, the Ass, and the Stick
    AT0564: The Magic Providing Purse and “Out, Boy, out of the Sack!”
    Language
    Irish
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Gaelic script
    Informant