Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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   Losing Butter: I think I have this covered in first Book filled
   Food: potatoes 3 times per day. The workers at KyleBalllyhue House got their breakfast before day-light & their supper after dark. Hence the saying: the house where they got 2 suppers the one night." After failure of the potaotes the men turned on oatmeal stirabout & ginger. Hence they say that oat-meal stirabout & ginger built all the local relief works, drains & ditches. I fear much of the stirabout was, at least at times, made of "Yǎllǎ Buck", local name for Indian meal. Always a goose for Michaelmass & a turkey, when at all possible for Xmas (in later years) My grandfather remembered the days of the "log wheels" & the cow or bullock used for ploughing & for draft.
   Highwaymen. The spot is shown at an Z bend on the Kellistown road when Freney robbed a coach i.e. Freney's Corner.
   Market-day. The Ballod-singer was ever popular. When it was illegal to sell ballods they used to sell a straw for a penny & wrap it up in the ballod!

   "When an ass letting loose from behind
   Made the blood of the bravest run colder"

   A maker of ballods once reproved his wife as she impertuned him for the price of a loaf: "Bí do t'ost, woman, can't you see I'm composing!"
   The apple-woman & the cracker-woman were popular. They could always supply one with a bottle of lemonade & 'an' a stick in it. Saffron-buns & gingerbreadmen were

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