Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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1. Mick Stanton (continued)

   

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   he was putting down big flags, to make the shore. Ould Colonel Strong came along to him anyway and he says: "Now Stanton make a good job of that, make them firm." "Oh they'll hould long enough" says Mick Stanton.
   "That wont do me", says Strong "I want them to hold forever"
   "Well, begob, let you get better flags for me and I'll make it hould longer than ever," says Mick

   

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2. Mick Stanton

   

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   Himself and the wife were coming home wan night and 'twas dark. And what the devil did Mick walk up against but a jennet on the road. The jennet gave him a kick. He threw off his coat and hat in the road and started boxing the jennet and the ould jennet had every kick at him. Begob in the end the jennet got the better of him. "Begob" says he, "when she started getting the two legs at me I had to leave her so."

   

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   Date

   January 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Johny Hayes

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   “When Mick would be asked to sing, he...”

   

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   When Mick would be asked to sing, he

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