Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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1. Sam Cooper (continued)

   

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   after Sam went to shoot there in the same place and he never met him. Didn't he manage him well, though?

   

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2. Sam Cooper

   

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   The police in Taghmon were always watching Sam too, and they couldn't catch him, no matter what. Wan day he was over in the Modgebeg and he see two of them on the road watching him. The place where he was is called "The Starvation", a wild bleak spot, nothing would grow in it. Sam had an ould timber gun he made himself. The police were watching him and begob they cut in to catch him There were no bikes in them times. They cut in like two devils after him across the land, and tis a boggy ould place there too. Sam he took to run too. So there they went up by wan ditch and down by another Sam and his ould board gun. Begob in the end the police caught him anyway "Now", says wan of the policemen, "we have yez." "Begob yez have" says Sam "And what

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   Date

   January 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Johny Hayes