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1. Stealing of Butter from Milk by Charms (continued)

   

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   not right either to bring a bucket, a can with the track of milk on it to a Spring or well. They should be washed in the house. The words used in taking a person's milk i
   "The top of the grass and the root of the corn
   My neighbours milk both night and morn."

   The milk was a taking from a lot of people in Corlough. They watched one night, and saw a hare sucking the cow and not leaving a drop of milk with her. A man got a gun and watched for the hare. He saw her, fired at her, struck her, but away she went, and took the milk that night too. He got a crooked six-penny bit, fired at her, and shot her. He saw her running away bleeding, and going in through the window of a house. He followed her, went into a house, and got a woman named Mavitty dying. they lost no more milk after that in the country.

   A family who was loosing a lot of milk (That is the cows would not give any)

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Joseph Mc Govern

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drumbar, Co. Cavan