Imleabhar: CBÉ 0485 (Cuid 1)
- Dáta
- 1938
- Bailitheoir
- Suíomhanna
Ar an leathanach seo
(gan teideal) (ar lean)
“Its a good while now since I tould ye any o' Tommie's yarns.”
(ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)an' he lodged every haw-seed that was in the gun, in the back o' his head.
"I have him" sez he to himsel, makin for the wather ta take out his fish, but insthead o' the fish lyin down to die fot he aught ta have done, if he didn't rise up, an' swim over to the other side o' the lake. Me grandfather swam in afther him, but thoul pike kep' swimmin ahead o' him, an' at lasht he disappeared up an ould undherground dhrain, where the wather ushed ta flow into the lake.
Me grandfather lay in the wather at the mouth o' this ould dhrain like a cat watchin' for a mouse, waitin' until the pike id take a notion to come out agin, and he was lyin' inthe wather for a week, but no thrace o' the pike turned up, an' at lasht he had ta lave the place, because there was a bad smell o' the wather so he came to the conclusion, that the pike had died there so he left the place.
It was twelve months afther before he came the way agin, an' he was holin' for rabbits, jusht over the spot where this undherground dhrain, was supposhed to flow into the lake, when he notiched a lot o' young fite thorns growin' there, an' when he dug deeper in his search for the rabbits, he found the skeataton o'(leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)