Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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   “There was a man wan time.”

   

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   the sea the ship went down.
   He woke up then and that was the end of the money.
   They say it is not right to take fairy money or to have anything to do with it.

   

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2. Queer Dream

   

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   There was a fellow wan time he lived in Canross. Himself and the wife lived in a little house about three hundred yards from the public house in Canross.
   One night he had a dream. He thought he was up in the moon, and that the sea was right under him.
   He didn't know bedamned how he'd get down. Begob after a while a big ship came along and stopped right under him. He wasn't right sure whether he was right fair over the ship or not. So the only way he had to find out was to piss down and if it went into the ship he was right he could jump then.
   He fired anyway, and begob the next

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   Date

   April 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Mrs Kennedy