Stories from Jas Coates 68 Knockananna.
heard from mother
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Some years ago an old woman told me this She said when she was little girl a North Country woman stopped at her house & had a little girl about her own age & this day the two women went to the fairs of Hacketstown & the girls when they got the house to themselves said that they would have a feast & they prepared the meal [hearty] and all things were on the table except milk & the little girl said she'd get milk. She leaped up on the table and over the window there was a board & she took down a little wooden cow & started milking & they had milk enough. - they had too much & that evening the cows all started to run their milk & when