Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1937–1938
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0463, Page 0040
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“Ballindoon Cross-roads, between mesel an yershrel agra is in me opinion a quare place.”
(continued from previous page)up, an' stharin across the wall, but afther a second or so, he moved away too.
Jomeen however seemed ta have got the worsht sthart o' the two, he never spoke until they had gone on, nearly a quarther o' a mile o' the road, an' nearly all that quarther o' a mile, he was brushin the sweat o' his forehead, an takin off his hat, an' smoothin back his hair, an' goin on wit all sorts o' auties. At lasht he said, an' his voice was in hoarse, is if he was sufferin' from a terrible cowld ( an thing that he never has in his life) "Did ye see the woman over at the crossroads" Faith ta be sure I did" sey the neighbor, who was notin' Jomeen's anxiety very well,
"An' fot di ye think she was", sey he
"Ara for was she sey the other man, who knew it was betther not ta frighten him, but [?]- sey he, mentionin' the girls' name, sure her father was ta take out grazin cattle off the ashtate for the fair today. Jomeen felt a little more satisfied when he heard this but the other manknew he had tould a lie, for he saw the woman's face before, and he knew her, for she was the wife o wan o'the tenents on the esthate, an' when her husband was evicted she died o' stharvation be the ditch on the roadside, but that was along time ago, and he felt sure that(continues on next page)