Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0192
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“It is said that if aturf-spade falls, it is asure sign of a death of some member of the family to whom the spade belongs.”
(continued from previous page)was dead an' they gave the date o' the death an all, which was on the very day that the girl saw the old woman sthandin inside her dure, an' they also tould her that the ould woman had wished a while before she died, that she could see her daughther wance agin.
An' it seems her wish was granted.
- One two five I caught ahare and afox alive
One two ten I let them go again
Ibet apound with anyman
That all my strokes are twenty-one
