Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)

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   “My mother" added the old man, "remembered the 'Big Wind'...”

   

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   hurricane, houses rocked and fell in all sides.
   A Frenchman prophesied the hurricane, and he closed up all the windows of his house anticipating the hurricane.

   

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   “In olden days people fasted every day during Lent.”

   

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   In olden days people fasted every day during Lent. On Ash Wednesday and Spy Wednesday they had their breakfast ar 12 oclock noon, of Oat (meal) cake and black tea - Dinner at 6PM of potatoes, a Salt herring, water to drink.

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   Béarla

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3. A Child in the Cradle to Cry 3 Times

   

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   So given to fasting were the old people that, on Ash Wednesday or Spy Wednesday, they would allow a child in the cradle to cry three times before they would give the child milk to drink.

   

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