Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Location
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“My mother" added the old man, "remembered the 'Big Wind'...”
(continued from previous page)hurricane, houses rocked and fell in all sides.
A Frenchman prophesied the hurricane, and he closed up all the windows of his house anticipating the hurricane.(no title)
“In olden days people fasted every day during Lent.”
In olden days people fasted every day during Lent.
On Ash Wednesday and Spy Wednesday they had their breakfast ar 12 oclock noon, of Oat (meal) cake and black tea -
Dinner at 6PM of potatoes, a Salt herring, water to drink.- So given to fasting were the old people that, on Ash Wednesday or Spy Wednesday, they would allow a child in the cradle to cry three times before they would give the child milk to drink.