snare is made. They get a piece of thin rope about six inches long and tie one end of the rope to the end of the snare. They get a puce of a thick rod about six or seven inches long and they tie the end of the rope to the end of the rod. Then they get a thin rod for each snare. They split the top of the snare with a knife so that the wire will go down in the rod. They got out then and set the snares on rabbit paths. They set the snare on a hop. They drive the stick the rope is tied on first. The stick is driven beside the path. They drive the thin rod and put the snare down in the place where the rod is

go so Felim decided to go himself. When he came near the fort he saw that the fairies were playing "Thart a bhróg" so he slipped in among them. When the rope came his way he stuck to it and did not pass it round. The fairies after some time began to grumble and ask that the rope be passed round. One of them said "Maybe Felim Waters has slipped in amongst us and has the rope. See how he codded ye last year taking the girl from ye." "Yes " said another "but he doesn't know yet that if he pulls the pin out of her head she will be able to speak". Felim had now heard enough. He stood up and made off with the rope with the fairies in hot pursuit. When the fairies were coming too close on him he threw back the rope to them. They returned to their fort and Felim returned home. When he came home he told his mother what the fairies said. She told him to go and see for himself. He entered the girl's room and searched in her hair for the pin. Good enough he found it and pulled it out. The first thing the girl did was to kiss Felim. She then thanked him for the way he treated her during the year and told him she was a Princess and that next day they would go to her father's house. Next day the two set off for her father's house. When they came to the gates of the palace she told Felim she would remain at the gates and he was to go to her father and say "your daughter is at the gates. Come down and see her." Then he was to run as fast as he could back to her as her father might kill him. He did as he was told and hurried

by a rope and the rope is tied to their foremost foot and this tying is called a side lagging.

sometimes six wires in every snare and twisted them together When it was well twisted they took out the sticks and there were two loops, one at each end of the snare. They put one of the loops in through the other making a round shape of the snare. They continued in this manner until all the wire was made into snares. Then they got the rope and put the end onf it in through the loop of snare and put a knot on it in order that it would not slip out again. The cute the rope leaving about six inces with the snare. They put rope on all the snares this way. When they had the snares made and roped they went to a tree and cut pegs about six inches long having a head on one end of it in order that the rope would not slip over it. They tied the

Once upon a time when Diarmud was back in the west he knocked a huge piece of rock out of Nephin and meant to crown Knocknashee with it so as to make it better than Benbulben, so he made a rope out of rushes and put it around it and carried it across the country but, when he came to the place where Muckelty now stands the rope broke and he was discouraged to try to bring it any farer so he left it there and to this day the track of the rope is on Muckelty.

In spring when the weather is nice and dry and the ground is hard a number of girls buy about a yard and a half of rope for skipping. Two girls hold the rope one at each end and twist it around. Then five or six girls jumps in and skip as the rope is being twisted around.The girls must be quick and lively and all jump together. Otherwise the swing of the rope is stopped or some of the girls get a lash of it. Then the game has to be started in the new. We have a number of rhymes which we say when we are skipping. I shall write one of them. While the rope is being twisted around one of the girls jumps in and while she is skipping she says.
"Molly in the kitchen doing a bit

An ancestor of the woman mentioned in the last story pursued somewhat different tactics when after her neighbours' butter. She went round the byres of her neighbours at dawn on a May morning just at dawn taking with a long finely twisted hay rope. This she passed under the cows repeating some incantations part of which was "all for me" and a knot was put on the rope for each cow as visited. One of the neighbours went to his byre to see a cow expected to calve and met the woman leaving the byre coiling up the rope. Not suspecting anything supernatural, but thinking that the woman had stolen the rope he snatched it from her and on his return to his house threw it in on a "loft" over a room. Next his wife churned without result as did the entire neighbourhood but having occasion to visit the loft later on in the day was mystified to find the place packed with butter. How the damage was repaired I never could find out.

Sergeant Scott of the Kiltyclogher was a great hero. He went down a big precipice in Glen Car, by a rope for a young girl's body who had fallen down.
When he was let down he fastened the body to the rope, and told the men to pull it up, when they had the girl up, they let the rope down again to him. He tied himself to the rope and they pulled him up. When he reached the top, there was only a little bit of the rope fastened, and if they had given another pull he would have been killed. Sometime after he got a bronze medal for a reward.

district. The black thief told the boy he would have to come with him one night to rob that man. They went and waited until the people of the house went to sleep. The black thief brought a bag and a rope with him. He told the boy he would have to go down the chimney by a rope and gather all the money he could and put it in the bag and he told him to tie the bag to the end of the rope and that he would take it up. Then he would let down the rope again and take him up. When the little boy had all the money gathered, he tied the bag to the end of the rope and the thief pulled it up. Then he went away with the money and left the boy there. The boy tried every way to get out but he could not and he got a bullock's skin under the stairs and he put it on himself and began making noise through the house. The man of the house wakened and came down the stairs with his revolver to see what was making the noise. When he saw what was in the kitchen he asked in the name of God! what was there? The little boy said that it was

Potatoes are grown on our farm at home. About three roods of land are sown under potatoes each year. The amount varies very little from year to year.My father prepares the ground. Potatoes can be sowed in two kinds of ground, namely, lea and "old garden". Lea is untilled grassy land or pasture. "Old garden" is the place where potatoes were planted the year before. When my father is about to dig lea ground, he selects a suitable place for planting. Then he gets a long rope called a "scoring rope". This is a long rope to each end of which a pointed stick three feet long is attached. He puts one stick in the ground and he stretches the rope and he sticks the other stick in the ground. Then he gets a laighe and he scores along the rope. Then he measures three feet from the other scoring and he scores another line. There are two reasons why he scores, namely, so that he may have the ridges straight and so that he can turn the sod easily. Then he puts out manure with donkeys on the ground that he has scored. He gets a laighe and he digs the right side first and then he digs the "back-sod" and he spreads moulds on the top.

also have a place for keeping the nights supply of fodder, hay and straw which feed alternately. A cow-house is sometimes called a byre in other parts of the country but the name is hardly ever used locally around this part of Roscommon where I live. Our cows are tied by a rope having a knot and an eye which is fastened to a chain, the rope being put around the cow's neck and the knot placed through the eye, the other of the chain has a large ring placed around a wooden pole on which it slides up and down according to the animals movements. Some cattle are tied from head to fore foot by a chain having a woven cloth rope home made placed on each end, which are called gads, the rope for tying around the neck is called a "cannish". The chain and gad form of tying, is called side lang, there is another form of tying used by some people called halter tying which is a system of placing a rope halter on the cow and tying to the foreleg.
We have nothing hung in our cow-house for lack but I have heard of people hanging horse shoes and burnt coals, on a May morning after coals had been

We pulled him out in the tide, four lads on the oars & I behind holding the rope. When the devil got out in the water he shook himself & faced out for Sriúil & as hard as the four on the oars could pull the boat was going back. In the end the arms were nearly pulled out of me with four men pulling me one way & the sturgeon pulling me th'other way, & I didn't like to let my fine new mooring-rope go. But the lad was winning & we were gaining speed backways so I was ordered to lev go my rope or he'd bring us away to say. I left go my fine rope and what do you think

were all to Mass. She wore a white cap that she had the previous Sunday at Mass, and she had shaken holy water on it. After half - an - hour the door was opened and a man came to have revenge because she did not marry himself. He had a rope and he was going to hang her, but he couldn't tighten the rope. Then an unseen person said to the man to take off the cap and her scapulars, and he did. Then he could tie the rope and he killed the girl.

threw it into a deep well but a workman went down on a rope for it.

the thatch. There was a man inside who took the rope out of the needle. The man outside then took out the needle and drove it in again farther on. Then the man inside put the rope into the needle and the man outside pulled out both rope and needle.

to his legs, and a rope and a stone to his hands, to keep him down straight on the table. After some time two men knew all about it, they made a plan that they would cut the rope and frighten the people. They came in and they knelt down near the table praying for the man. They cut the rope and the man jumped up from the table and all the people got frightened and they thought the man was alive again.

found hanging off a tree with the new rope.

a rope from a ring on the manger.

rope across the road.

One morning there was a man going to the fair and he got up very early. The horse was out on grass and he had to go across the river to get him. When he was near the river he saw two women, one on each bank, and they were pulling a rope from side to side of the river. As soon as they saw the man they ran away and they left the rope after them. When the man came to the place he took the rope and carried it home with him, and put it for safe keeping under a barrel. It went at that, but some time after he wanted a rope and went to the barrel to get this one. When