Volume: CBÉ 0221
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0051
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“There was a man wan night coming home from the fair of Ross.”
(continued from previous page)there were surely fifty or sixty in the car at least. He looked in the car and could see nothin', an' he thought that the woman was makin' game of him.
Anyhow the woman got out of the car at her own gate and went home, and he went home, an' unyoked the horse an' put him in the stable. Then he noticed that the horse was full of perspiration. It was a steel grey horse but he was almost black by this time. Then the man began to wonder at what the woman said. "Begor" says he to himself "there must have been something in the car besides meself an' that woman for I never saw that horse in such a state before.
All went well an' good 'till he was comin' home from the next fair of Ross(continues on next page)