Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)

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1. The Tallow Candle (continued)

   

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   'Tis often I thought my eyes were melted in my head with the smoke and bad light, and now, at the age of seventy eight years I can, without glasses put thread through the eye of a fine needle and knit stockings.

   

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2. The First Paraffin Oil Lamp

   

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   I remember the first paraffine-oil lamp. My grandfather bought a tin lamp with globe at Mr. Hynes. Ballymoe, where he also bought a bottle of paraffine oil. The neighbours were curious and came to our house to see the map burn. This was the first time we saw a globe on a lamp or saw paraffine oil burn. "Well," she continued with a smile, " we filled the lamp with the paraffine oil, lit the wick with a wisp of straw and put the globe on the lamp. The neighbours sat on blocks around the fire. - A flame went up the chimmney of the globe which was soon black with smoke

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script