Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1938
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0043
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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.”
(continued from previous page)was, ta get two black hounds, without awhite hair in them, and ta hunt the hare wit them.
The man did so, an' on acertain mornin' he got up very early, an' brought the two dogs wit him, an' they hunted the hare far an' near, until at lasht, she began ta give in.
She was comin' near an ould house at the time, an' the dogs war up to her heels, when suddenly she gave ajump an' in through the winda wit her. As she was goin, wan o' the dogs sthuck his teeth in her hind quarthers, but she pulled him in afther her, an' the other dog followed. The man went in on the dure thinkin' ta get the hare, an' fot di ye think he found within before him but his two dogs lyin' dead within on the flure, an' avery ould woman, an' her all covered wit blood sittin on the hob.