Volume: CBÉ 0577 (Part 001)

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   “There was a man living up in Barnagh wan time, his name was Tom Monaghan.”

   

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   "are a happy man," says she, "and happy is the hour you were born," and then she disappeared. That was all she said to him. I suppose she was not at rest, and she was coming there for years, and, I suppose, when he told her to go to heaven, she did go. I don’t know, sure, but that was what she said to him anyhow. Tom wasn’t a bit the worse anyhow. He used to go off every night after that as usual.

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2. Stick Again

   

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   I was telling you the yarn how me grandfather met the black dog, and how he stuck the spong in him, and how he found the spong in the morning, and it stuck in a big heap of odd stuff for all the world like jelly. Well, there was another man one night, and he was down on the river, poaching for salmon, and he had a big spear with him. At that time a lot of fellows used to go in for that, but you'd see no fellows around here bothering about it now. Well, twas about this time of year, or a little later, in November, we'll say, when the salmon be's coming up to spawn. This fellow was out with his gray

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