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1. A Song - Feilme (continued)

   

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   And as the fire burned low
   Pat up the stairs again would go,
   You'd hear the sound of every blow
   He give the ribs of Feilme.
   14
   On Thursday morning bells were rung
   On Thursday night sweet songs were sung.
   The bride she danced her stocking flung
   And says away with Feilme.

   

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2. Food in the Olden Times

   

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   Long ago the breakfast consisted of oatmeal porrige boiled fresh in the morning. It was eaten in a noggin with buttermilk. A noggin was a wooden bowl with a handle. Noggins were the articles used before cups. For dinner soup and sometimes bacon with potatoes and vegetables. On a fast day they would have potatoes and buttermilk. Another dinner that was common was champ with butter on it and eaten with a cut of oatmeal bread. At night when they came in from their work they had oatmeal bread with butter on it and a noggin of sweetmilk. For their supper they had oatmeal porrige with buttermilk. They would eat these meals at a losset in the middle of the floor. A losset

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