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   pigs. It is said that if a man is smoking and churning at the same time that he won't get butter on the milk.

   One time, there was a man and he could never have butter on the milk when he would churn. One night he stayed to watch the cow and see would anything go near her. When he was a little while there a white hare came up tot he cow and the man fixed a chat at it it and hit it on the leg. The hare ran away to an old house and leaped in on the window. The man followed it into the house and when he went in, there was an old woman lying on the bed and her leg bleeding.

   Patrick Caffrey
   This was told to me by my mother who lives in Ballyboy,
   Abbeylara,
   Streete,
   Co. Westmeath,

   Aged 40 years

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)
            1. butter and churns (~3,280)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Caffrey

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballyboy, Co. Longford

   Informant

   Mrs Caffrey

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   40

   Address

   Ballyboy, Co. Longford