Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)

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1. The First Paraffin Oil Lamp (continued)

   

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   The neighbours were afraid to go near it. The women screamed. We smelled the paraffine oil burn - a dull flame shot upwards - the globe burst. One young man took courage and flung across the kitchen a wet bag over the lamp. the light went out.

   My mother next day flung out the lamp and paraffine oil - we were afraid to light the lamp again, fearing the house would take fire and be burned over our heads.

   

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2. The Ink Bottle Lamp

   

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   Pat Skewington, one of our neighbours who saw the lamp burn that night-in fact: it was Pat, who flung the wet bag over lamp. Well, Pat was a smart man, and he thought over things in his own mind. He got an ink bottle, filled it with paraffine oil, pierced a round hole in a cork into which he inserted the

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script