Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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1. Sam Cooper (continued)

   

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   are yez going to do with me now that you have me?" They saw the gun, and sure 'twas only a wooden gun and they could do nothing about it. "And what did yez run for?" says the police. "I wanted to warm myself" says Sam, "What did yous run after me for?" They could get no good of him, thus had to let him go.

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2. Sam

   

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   There was a son of Sam's working wan time at Larry O Brien's of Whitechurch. You know that farmer's place on the left hand side before you'd come to the graveyard.
   This man was after threshing anyway and he had a whole lot of wheat & oats in bags up in a loft.
   Sam used keep an ould jennet and car and he used ofter go around in it. On the night of the threshing Sam stole four or five bags of oats out of Larry O Brien's place. There was a path from Sam's place to Larry's house, but you couldn't bring a car

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