Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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    He lives with his mother, a brother and a sister.

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    working in the yard. She had nothing on her but a bag (and she quite bare behind) When she saw him she walked backward into the kitchen. He went in and sat by the fire for a while. Then he had to have "the tay". They searched for a couple of eggs and could find none, they went out and tried all the likely place where the hens were in the habit of laying, but there wasn't one to be found. "Stop a minute" says the ould woman, and she put her hand down in her bosom and brought up two eggs. Kate took the two eggs and put them in the sáspan, [?] no more about it.)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    15 Eanáir 1938
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    Béarla
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script