Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 2)
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0237
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“There was a man by the name of Mosey Kelly...”
There was a man by the name of Mosey Kelly and wan night he was coming home from Carrig he met a stone roller coming again him. 'Twasn't rolling at all but turning on it's ends, and it going like the devil.
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“There was a doctor wan time and he made a bargain with a man...”
There was a doctor wan time and he made a bargain with a man, whose wife was sick, that if he'd kill her, or cure her he'd get fifty pounds.
The Doctor attended her for a while but the woman died. The doctor came along and demanded his money. The man did want to pay. "Didn't you make the bargain that if you'd kill her or cure her that I was to give you fifty pounds"? says the man. "Yes" says the doctor.
"well, you didn't kill her or cure her" says the man. "She died".
The doctor had to go without anything. - There was a great pack of hounds here in Bannow about seventy years ago. A man by the name of Malone was Whipper-in. They had plenty fancy names on all the dogs:- Dairymaid