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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   youngster with the pale face and wistful eye on calling for a d1/2 worth of sugar-stick, at the same time unfolding a small rag or piece of paper in which he had his coin tightly secured, he was handed back the same amount of sugar stick, as the boy who presented Biddy with a silver coin from his purse.
   Sometimes Biddy took a notion and chased the youngsters from her cart to allow their elders come around and buy the vegetables- but the youngsters were back in a few minutes, they looked on Biddy as their friend and were jealous that the 'elders' should come near her cart- Biddy and her cart belonged to them, and to them alone-
   Biddy who attended the fairs, races and patterns."
   "We seldom", continued the old man, "saw a news paper. We bought a ballad at the fair, races or market,

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script