Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0129
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
On this page
(no title) (continued)
“Well I'll tell ye anether Sthory about Curlisheen now is I'm at it.”
(continued from previous page)"Connaght Man's Rambles" on a flute, an' the people who war howldin him tould him that from that place he wouldn't get until he danced ta that tune.
Now this ould tenent in his younger days was a great flute player himsel, an' he could dance the day long, an' not be tired, so he was very glad ta hear tell that he could get away so aisy is he thought.
He stharted ta dance at wance, an' he was side stheppin very gracefully down be a group o' little people, when wan o' them caught his shirt-tale, an' gave him a nice tidy whack on his nether end, an' sez to him "Micky go home to Nelly the cows won't gwin to the oats this mornin' (Micky was the man's name, an' Nellie his wife's) He had ta put up wit the whack anyway, for somehow or other he couldn't sthop dancin' at the time, but every time that he side-stepped near the group he was always sure ta get the same punishment, an' the same thing was always sure to be said to him, an' he got maybe fifteen or sixteen whacks before they let him away ta look afther his cows, an' when he want is far is the oatsfield they warn't there at all.(continues on next page)