Volume: CBÉ 0406 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0406, Page 0020
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- (continued from previous page)"And didn't you promise[?] this day month that if I let you go that you'd come out when you'd get fat?"
"Yurra musha one[?] you wouldn't mind what I said that day wasn't I in me liquor"
So the cat had to go away
- The ox & the ass
Long ago all the animals were able to talk. This farmer had an ox and an ass, an 'twas with the ox he used to do all his ploughing. This night anyway the ox & the ass were in the stable, and the ox had terrible grunting & groaning.
"What bedamned is wrong with you?" says the ass. "Oh, I'm all sore from kicking and beating me all day" says the ox. "Isn't it fine for yous that you haven't to be out ploughing like me"
"I'll tell you what you'll do," says the ass. "Pretend you're sick tomorrow & don't ate anything in the morning.
"begab'n [?] man I'll try it," says the ox.
Who was standing outside the door but the master and he overheard the whole conversation. In the morning anyway the ox was sick and he refused to take his feed. The servant went in and told the master that the ox was sick and wouldn't eat(continues on next page)
