Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)

Date
1938
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0040

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0040

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  1. (no title) (continued)

    Its nearly is long is I mind o now ta me grandmother God be good to her...

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    said, that she couldn't get it out there, an' she tould him ta give it out on the dure to her.
    He was too shleepy ta open the dure ta hand it out to her, so he got an iron bar ta sthuff it out to her on avacancy that was undher the dure.
    She tuk the sheet, an away wit her, an' the man went ta bed agin.
    The nexht mornin' when he got up, he looked at the iron bar, an' he found the thrack o' the woman's hand burned in it, where she caught it, when she was takin' the sheet an' I'm tellin you he was very thankful that he didn't open the dure for her. So fot di ye think o' that for awan.
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    It was a good wan ye sez, well maybe I'd be able to think o' anether yarn jusht is good.

    It was a good wan ye sez, well maybe I'd be able ta think o' anether yarn jusht is good.
    It was ta Micky Walsh himsel that this happened to, wan night that himsel an' me brotherinlaw, was comin' home from ramblin' down near Loughlio.
    O Courche Micky was an ould man at the time, an' me brotherinlaw was only alittle gosoon.
    The pair o' them was comin' along chattin', when all o' asudden Micky Walsh stood back. Me brother-in-law didn't miss him for a few minnits, for he
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    Date
    12 March 1938
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant