Volume: CBÉ 0437 (Part 1)

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   “There was a fellow living here and the job he had was an agent for towing machines.”

   

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   me alright," says the lad; and he walked out of the shop.
   In a minute or two Donelly put his hand in his pocket and he hadn't a halfpenny.
   They cant take it unless they see it, and this fellow only wanted to see it, then he was right.

   

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2. Cats

   

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   There were a family of Nolans living wan time in Loughnageer. Wan night the man of the house was after coming in from the fields from ploughing. He unyoked the horses and took them down to the stream for a drink, before giving them a feed of oats.
   When he came to the stream, the horse was drinking, a mortial [?] big cat came and jumped up on the horse's back. Nolan only drew a wipe of the reins at him. "Go off to hell out o' that" says he. In wan minute about four thousand cats appeared and they growling at him. Wan of them spoke up: "We'll be here when there will be no Nolans in Loughnageer," and

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   Date

   November 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Johny Hayes