Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 3)
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Location
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- (continued from previous page)next day it was the whole take of the people about the terrible cock that was heard in the graveyard.
- Wan night that [?] of the Briens was dead - I cant remember now which of 'em was dead. But, anyway, there was a woman living a few fields away from the place in a farmer's house and she used 'lay people out". She was always called in when anyone about the place died.
She came to Brien's house and layed out the corpse. She spent a few hours at the wake. When 'twas getting a bit late she said she would go home and have a few hours sleep. The night was dark. But she could see the light of a cottage near her own house and she said she would face for that ___ that she'd be all right, that she'd be home in ten minutes.
She went off by herself. She face for the light; but she was going around(continues on next page)