Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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1. Hydrophobia

   

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   I remember taking 'part in' a mad dog chase. He was shot foaming dreadfully at the mouth. Even today every strange dog is looked upon as a mad dog & children ran from him in dread with the cry "mad dog!" Thus the aftermath of a regime of terror persist for generations. At that time even those suffered from extreme delerium tremens were temporarily confined in the asylum, so great was the fear of hydrophobia & the human bite was most carefully cauterised "I'd sooner get the bite of a mad-dog than have anything to do with that fellow

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   Carlow Castle & blonmel spell me that with-out “c” or “l” (Riddle) answer: “that”. “God spare non the health” anybody (?) Thanks very much! The crows begin to build their nests at the first day of mopel. If It falls on a Sunday, we (?) postpone till monday. Sean Swift: “High church, low steeple; (St. annes Protestant church speaking of borlow town) Poor town, proud people” ( and the R.C. cakedral (?) respectively Padrug (?) moe Piorais: skin (?) pence in silver looks down on sin pence in coppers in borlow. Future Husband: send pichs up daisy & plucky of the petals one by one recites: “ Tender, sailor, soldier, sailor, richman, poor man, formor (?) don (?)”

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