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1. Travelling Folk

   

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   Travelling folk in Ireland are very interesting in their habits and customs. They travel from place to place through the country usually by means of a caravan. These caravans are drawn by horses or donkeys.
   They select their camping places where they are well sheltered from the storm and generally in thickly populated districts.
   They get their living by making articles in tin and wicker-work, which they sell to the country people.
   Some of them are also dealers in horses and donkeys, their transactions are conducted principally with the farming community.
   They visit the same places year after year where they stay for ten or fourteen days.
   They get most of their food from the generous country people.When asking for alms some of them are grateful and polite while others are rude and unthankful.
   They usually travel in companies of two or three families. At night they sleep in tents which make themselves resembling

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