Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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1. Father Clowry (continued)

   

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   Shortly afterwards the old man was stricken with some mysterious illness. Dr. Kidd could not "for the life of him" find out what was the matter with the patient. He was pining away and if a bottle of extra strong cattle lotion was found on one occasion too near the bed, well, it happened by accident, to be sure. The patient refused his medicine; it was burning the throat "out of him". I remember visiting the old man shortly before he died. An asthma-kettle was in full blast in a suffocating room and the old lady "marched up and down" with the eternal wail, "Who'll work your tools now, Boss?" That poor decent old man died and was burried.
   A few years later the son married a Protestant woman "from the hills", a Miss Watchhorn - significant name, now that I think of it. Her fortune was £80. After 5 or 6 months "the row riz" and she had to go home for safety. She returned in a week's time with an extra £70 in her pocket. She was "as welcome as the days of May" when the money was handed over. The same experiment was tried again with the same result, and again and again until the Watchhorn were "bled dry". The Golden Goose ceased to lay. The young woman developed some mysterious malady and she had for her nurse that demon who had

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   History Edit

   Date

   1908

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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