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1. Lent Long Ago (continued)

   

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   week. What we would get then would be a mug of buttermilk, and a piece of bread. Then we would have to work on that all day, and not another bit until night, and that's what we would get for the day."

   Told to the mistress by Mr. Robert Power, Curraghduff, Campile. (farmer)
   Mr. Power has since died at the age of eighty five or six.

   

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2. An Old Tale

   

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   There was a man with a hump on his back who worked in Campile This morning he went to plough in a field near a rath and when he went to yoke the horses, a woman came up out of the rath. She had a losad in her hand. It was broken and she asked him to mend it. He told her he would not, and she went off. The man ploughed until dinner time and a boy came with his dinner. He told him all about the woman and

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   Folktales index

   AT0503: The Gifts of the Little People

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maisie O' Connor

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Dick Ryan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Garryduff, Co. Wexford