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1. Story 18

   “Once a man came home from Scotland to Ireland on his holidays.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Story 18 March 1938

   Told by Edward Dugan

   Once a man came home from Scotland to Ireland on his holidays.

   One morning he was coming home at one o'clock from a party. When he was passing the little church on his way home, he saw a light inside it. He crept to the door, and looked up the aisle of the church. At the top, he saw a fire burning and a big pot was hanging over it. A man was sitting beside the fire and he was cutting something up with a large knife.

   The man turned, and ran home as quickly as he could. When he reached home, he said to his mother; "the Deil is in your kirk tonight, mother, and he is actually cutting the heads off the people".

   Now his old mother was a cripple, and walked with crutches, so she said to her son; "carry me

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Edward Dugan

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   Os cionn 90

   Seoladh

   Glebe, Co. Dhún na nGall