School: Gortermone
- Location:
- Gortermone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs A. O' Reilly
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- (continued from previous page)a soft time. On one occasion her husband took in two wandering or 'tramp tailors' so Peggy was at her wits' end how she'd feed them. She knew all about boxty but wringing it was too hard a task to suit Peggy's taste. So far so good, she grated it; a whole creel of potatoes, threw the whole grated stuff into a bag all in the one. & clapped it between two very large stones till next day. Then being well dried, she boiled it without any flour (this class of boxty becomes very black) She put all the dumplings of boxty into a box and so kept on using them (aye, as much as must do for three months all together) I assure you at the end of a week the tailor's were gone as they could see Peggy lifting up the boxty by the fur on top.
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Now Peggy was shrewd in many ways. She had ducks, geese etc., which naturally lost feathers in the "slough" something [?] [?](continues on next page)
