School: Carraigíní (Carrigans)
- Location:
- Carrigans, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire E. Ní Stiopháin
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A Dialogue (continued)
“This is a conversation which was heard between a pig jobber an some small farmers who were on their way to Derry with pigs to sell.”
(continued from previous page)maybe A vote for the tither, or maybe A vote for nayther o' them. An nobody kens what way A voted."
P Jobber "That's just it; that's just the way it is."
(Chorus of Small Farmers, with fervour): "Agh, that's dacency, so it is."
2rd farmer (following up the success scored by No. 2) "Well, now, if it wudn't be troublin' ye too much, maybe ye'd tell us this. We'll say A promised my vote till this gentleman" (to right) " an' A tuk money maybe frae him; an' then we'll say A promised it till that(continues on next page)