Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)

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   “I have lived to see a great many changes. I am now eighty seven years of age.”

   

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   Galway, Mayo and Roscommon. There was a Cobbler, and a thatcher named Raftery.
   Raftery, the thatcher, made Bee Hives of woven straw sewn together into shape with strings of dry grasses that grew in the bogs. There was a woman who made sugar-stick and brown rock. The youngsters called her "Biddy Sugar-stick" and "Biddy Ballymoe". Biddy Sugar-stick attended the markets at Glenamaddy, Williamstown and Castlerea on her ass and cart. On arriving at the market, Biddy Sugar-stick, released the ass from the cart, and the well trained ass fed on a bag of hay Biddy had carried with her. Biddy next arranged her sugar sticks, fruit and vegetables on her cart, and she was immediately surrounded by youngsters; kind and generous to them Biddy was. It frequently occured that the

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   Language

   Béarla

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   Handwritten

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   Roman script