Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 1)

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1. There was a man wan time and he was married and begor himself and his wife usn't to get on very well at all. (continued)

   

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   a grip of him by the ear. "Do ye know what it is this thing is going a bit too far and I'm not going to put up with it any longer. you get out of this house and never show your face inside the door of it again as long as ever you live" The lad that was telling the yarns to the wife didn't know what to make of him at all for he had no more harm in what he was doing no more than if it was only an ordinary single girl he was talking to. Anyway he left the house and of course he was a bit annoyed. They all knew that Johnnie was a bad case but they had no inclination that he was as bad as all that.
   From that out Johnnie kept a close eye on the wife, and begor he used to imagine terrible things about the poor woman, and I suppose that there wasnt in all Ireland a woman more devoted to a man than she was. Jealousy got the upper hand of him in the end and he told the

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   History Edit

   Date

   10 Eanáir 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Folktales index

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   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • Seán Dake