Imleabhar: CBÉ 0407 (Cuid 1)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. Poitín and Honey (ar lean)

   

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   Níl tú logáilte isteach, ach tá fáilte romhat tras-scríobh a dhéanamh go hanaithnid. Sa chás seo, déanfar do sheoladh IP a stóráil ar mhaithe le rialú cáilíochta.

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   I remember asking little Pat to tell me the story of the bees. He told me the story just as I had heard if from my father but I was disgusted when he used the "wapses" instead of bees. The old English word "waps" is the common word in Co. Carlow: " a wapses nest."

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2. Finn Mac Cool's Thimble

   

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   One of the wonders of my child-hood days was Finn Mac Cool's thimble, a perforated circular stone shaped like the whorl of a wooden botton, which lies inside the gate of the Back Lodge of Castletown. As I think of it now it may be the unfinished top-stone of a quern but

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   "What's that big stone, daddy?"
   "That's Finn Mac Cool's Thimble
   "Who was he?" He told us ad lib.
   "Fionn was being chased by a Scotch giant. He was so hard pressed that he lost his thimble. When Finn was coming in this gate the Scotch giant was standing on Gráig na Spideog Hill & he flung the thimble after Finn. It fell here & there it has remained ever since.
   "No. It's not like a thimble. Finn had two doors to his house, a back-door & a front-door. He used to fling this stone over the roof from behind the house, & ran through

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

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