Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 3)

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1. Stealing Apples (continued)

   

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   and they faced for Bakers Bridge. They heard the hounds and horses coming after them. The other man was afraid. "Yerra let 'em go to the devil!" says me father.
   They heard them coming on behind them 'til they came to the bridge, and when they crossed the bridge, they could hear the splashing and plunging in the water behind them. They couldn't cross the water.
   You may be sure they had plenty of apples after that raid.
   Wan of the Collis he used keep a pack of hounds. When he died he need be heard about the place at night with the hounds; and I suppose 'twas he was there that night, and he didn't want the apples to be going.

   

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2. Dance

   

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   There was a dance out at Carthy's of Cronohill wan night and this man Joe Carthy and me father were there. The two of 'em were working in the same house. Joe had a girl at the dance; and me father knew he'd be going home with her. "I'll go home" says

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Mrs Howard