Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)

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1. The Lazy Daughter (continued)

   

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   after this the wife roared out to the servant girl to give her her breakfast. The girl went up to the head of the stairs and told the woman in the bed that she was told not to give her anything at all. The woman's two eyes opened. "He told you that" says she. "Yes" said the servant girl The lazy woman in the bed went off asleep again, and never wakened until the husband came in to his dinner. She got up then and sat down by the fire. The husband was eating away at the table and he never said a word to her. She didn't know what to say at all, but at last the hunger overcame her and she turned around and says she to the husband, "Is it possible that you told the servant girl not to give me any breakfast." "It is" said he "And what is the idea of that" says she. "Well" said he "I don't see the use of feeding people who don't

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   History Edit

   Date

   December 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • Pádraig Ó Ruairc