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   “There is a story told about a big pike that was in Ballyhooney river that no one could catch.”

   

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   There is a story told about a big pike that was in Ballyhooney river that no one could catch. There was living in Borrisokane a man by the name of Mr Davis. One day he went out to fish for the pike. He took a paper and his glasses with him. He was sitting on the bank when reading the paper the pike took the bate. It gave such a pull that it broke the line and knocked the paper and glasses into the water. He went home and on the next day Michael Connors went to the river and he saw the pike with the glasses on this eyes and he reading the paper. He was smoking his pipe when the pike jumped out of the river and took the pipe out of his mouth. The next day Bill Dudley went to the river he saw the pike with the glasses on his eyes reading the paper and smoking the pipe.

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Michael Seymour

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   13

   Address

   Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Michael Lawlor

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Sragh, Co. Tipperary