Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)

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   “I have lived to see a great many changes. I am now eighty seven years of age.”

   

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   calf. Fury offered the owner seven and six pence for the calf and he would have taken the calf away that day to have it slaughtered but he had no cart in which to carry the calf to his home at Ballymoe. The calf was only one day old and unable to walk such a distance. So the bargain (tho' Fury was offered a second smaller calf free) was broken. The two calves remained with their owner who was kind to all animals. He fed them with milk, for he did not like to see them die - Bullock calves were considered of no value. A change came, and these two bullock calves were, in two years, sold for £14.
   There also lived in Ballymoe a Cow-Doctor - King by name. King came round when called, to physic the cattle, giving them a physic of ginger,trackle, and aloes. A Nailer, who made nales, and sold them through the Counties,

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