Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 3)

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1. The Mason in the Graveyard (continued)

   

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   next day it was the whole take of the people about the terrible cock that was heard in the graveyard.

   

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2. Jackee the Lantern

   

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   Wan night that [?] of the Briens was dead - I cant remember now which of 'em was dead. But, anyway, there was a woman living a few fields away from the place in a farmer's house and she used 'lay people out". She was always called in when anyone about the place died.
   She came to Brien's house and layed out the corpse. She spent a few hours at the wake. When 'twas getting a bit late she said she would go home and have a few hours sleep. The night was dark. But she could see the light of a cottage near her own house and she said she would face for that ___ that she'd be all right, that she'd be home in ten minutes.
   She went off by herself. She face for the light; but she was going around

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • James Carey