Volume: CBÉ 0437 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
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- (continued from previous page)room where the photos were and asked her could she point out if any of them was like him, and in the minute she picked out the picture of the doctor and said that was the man.
In about twenty minutes after a wire came to them that he was dead in Waterford. - Willie Smith down here, was often telling me, when he was working on the railway. When they were making that railway from Waterford to Rosslare. He was often telling me that all he'd have in the morning was a crust of dry bread and a sup of milk and he'd have to work hard all day on that. At night they'd have a big pot of cutling stirabout and they'd all dip into it.
"And now, Jasus Christ," says he, "I have plenty and I cant ate it - thanks be to God."
He bet all for cursing. But he have plenty now his family is all grown up and doing for themselves.