School: Rathmeage, Hackettstown
- Location:
- Rathmeague, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Tuathail
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“One time there was a man and his wife and two children lived near Follow.”
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.- Heard from Hugh Higgins aged 46 Farmer Ardnaboy who heard it from his mother.
A boy and his mother lived together in a house. She was sending him to the shop one day for eyes livers & lights but he couldn't think of it so she said keep shouting it all the way along the road. He met a man vomiting in the ditch & the man thought he said "That you may throw up your eyes liver and lights" & he told him to say instead "Whats down may it never come up" & then he met two men sowing oats & they got out on the road when they heard him & they kicked him & told him to say "As much as we have this year may we have twice as much next year" so he went on shouting this & he met a funeral & he said "as much as we have this year that we may have twice as much next year". They kiced him around the road & told him to say Lord have mercy on all the souls of the(continues on next page)