Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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1. Hens and Sow (continued)

   

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   young wanes. I heard tell too why the hens cant swim and the duck can. The hens were scrábing away the shelter from Our Saviour and the Ducks were trying to cover Him. That is why the duck can swim, and she never would get wet; and the hens cant swing at all.

   

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2. St. Patrick's Curse

   

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   When St. Patrick was in Ireland long 'go he had a lot of chaps training them, or something like that; and they were unmanageable, he could get no good at all of them. Wanday he was so vexed that he cursed them. They did something out of the way & he got vexed and cursed them.
   After a while, anyway, he get sorry and he took the curse off them again and he put it on the rushes and if you notice you'll always see that the tops of the rushes are always withered. Well, they say

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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