Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0071
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“There were three fellows in Killurin wan time...”
(continued from previous page)each of them ten shillings a week. Well I got a lot of offers but somehow or other I didn't avail of them Wan day a fellow came inta the yard in a (mota?) cow, and got out an' came over ta me. Begor he was dressed up in great style. I wondered what the dickens he was wantin' and we were talking for some time, and at last he asked me did I want a good milker. I said O did five of them. He asked me how much a week was I goin' ta give each of them. I told him that I was goin' ta give each of them ten shillings a week. Ten shillings a week each says he. that is fifty shillings a week says he and you will have ta feed the five of them. Yes says I. Well says he I will make you a bargain. I'll milk your fifty cows for you night and morning, by myself and you(continues on next page)