Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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1. Fox and Her Young (continued)

   

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   I met her another evening down there and the young wans with her and she mad at me to attack me. While she was attacking me the young wans were making off, and as soon as they were safe she hooked it.

   

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2. Bird with the Cuckoo

   

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   You'd always notice a small bird going around after the cuckoo. That's what they call a "ground lark" to. That's the bird that reared him. The cuckoo you know lays her egg in the ground lark's nest, and the groundlark hatches the egg and rears that fellow. I happened on a nest down here wan time and young cuckoo in it.
   Well, if you see that little aindeiseóir of a lark and she feeding that whore - a big buggar, as big as a thrush. And then she goes around after him minding him. She starves herself to feed that big whore.
   The birds you see going around

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   Date

   Aibreán 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • John Carroll