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1. Quare Fellow (continued)

   

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   and any shop you'd go into around here if you wanted a penn'orth of méat you'd get it.
   He went into Nolan's public house wan day and he asked for a penn'orth of méat.
   Whoever was in the shop cut the lump of méat for him and weighed it out to him.
   He put a penny on the counter and he took the mate. "Aren't you going to give me any change out of it?" says he. "How's that?" says the person in the shop, "havent you a pennyrt of méat in that?"
   "Begob," says he, "I thought I'd get a little reduction on it when I was taking the whole lump."

   

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2. Owl

   

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   I was coming home wan night from Ross on the bicycle. Twas a dark night but I had the devil of a great lamp on the bike. When I was coming on under the trees there at Carrigbyrne I wandered to the

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   Date

   January 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Johny Hayes