Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0034
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- (continued from previous page)thing that he'd wish for
The Hunchback thought for a minnit, an then he sez "I wish yid take the hump off me back."
He had the words hardly said when the hump was taken clane off his back, an' he went home is straight is a whippin' pole.
Nexht day the report went all over the townland that wan o' the hunchbacks was cured, an' it wastn't long until the other wan heard it too, an' the firsht thing he did was ta get ready, and go to the cured hunchback's house, an' ask him, how he got cured.
He was only too delighted ta give afull account o' his adventure the night before an' before they parted that evenin' the fella wit the hump sthill on his back, had made up his mind ta put himsel in for an adventure the same is is friends, in ordher ta get cured o' his hump. The other hunch-back gave him all the good advice that he could, so they both parted.
The second hunch back was comin' along the road that night, jusht the same time is his friend was the night before, an' comin' on o' him at the lone bush the same whirl blasht blew, an' it shook the three from the roots. The hunchback sthood up ta look at it, an' he thought jusht the same is(continues on next page)
