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1. Funerals and Wakes (continued)

   

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   It was the custom that everyone would smell snuff and smoke clay pipes at the expense of the house at wakes. My father told me that he never heard tell of a caoine. So it must be a long time since it was practised in Rathkeenan because my father's people are here for the past three generations. They used to play games at wakes such as (1)"The Cobbler and the tinker (2) The house that Jack built. (3) The priest of the parish lost his considering cap.

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2. Funerals and Wakes - The Crooked Crab-Tree

   

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   Essie got this from her father Patrick Keogh. It is a wake game or rhyme.
   The Crooked crab tree.

   Heres the crooked crab tree
   Heres the crooked grass that grew
   around the crooked crab tree
   Here's the crooked horse that ate the grass that
   grew around the crooked crab tree.
   Heres the crooked man that rode the

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