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1. Essay on Food in Olden Times (continued)

   

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   bit of cabbage for their dinner. They would get one slice of salty bacon every two days of the week.
   On Easter Sunday they would get a few boiled eggs and a pot of porridge in the morning. During Lent they would not eat anything only porridge. On a Sunday they would eat some potatoes and buttermilk and salt.
   Peggy Meehan
   Clonave, Coole, Co Westmeath
   Told to me by Kate Keena Clonave, Coole.

   

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2. An Old Story

   

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   Their was a man living about Streete long ago and he was called John Ward. One night he was going on a visit when it started to rain very heavy. He stood under a bush for shelter. When he was a few minutes there he heard a noise in the bush and a lovely scissors fell at his feet. He picked it up and put it in his pocket. When he a woke next morning there was not a rib of hair on his head. The scissors which he had left

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