Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 2)

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1. Sutton

   

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   There was another ould fellow by the name of Sutton and he was a devil at the rhymes. He was changing wan time from Bannon to Tomhaggard. He was going to live there. When they were passing through Baldwinstown there were people at every door watching and making fun of him.
   "As i went down through Belwinstown
   Where there was neither church nor steeple
   In every door there stood a whore
   To laugh at dacent people"

   Another time some one asked him how was the family, and where they were, and so on.
   Well says he:
   (daughters) "I have two heifers in Bannow
   (son) A Bullock in Mountpill
   (wife) The ould Cow is in Rathnaden
   (himself) And the Bull he's in Springhill"

   Sutton was workign at Hayes' of Streamville want time, at farm work. HE was no good after horses or anythign like that.
   Anyway Hayes employed anotehr man wan day by the name of Ned Fitz', a great latin

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Pat Roche