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1. Fishing (continued)

   

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   I was fishing down in a place called Ballinlee of another day.
   'Twas a nice warm day in the month of May. I threw the bait into the water and laid the rod down on the bank. I took out me pipe and went to take a smoke.
   Twasnt long until I warred the rod bobbing, like something was pulling at it. I jumped up and pulled. A terrible strain came and meself and rod and all were pulled down the river. There was a big sceach tree about a hundred yards down I ran for that and wound the rod and line around it a couple of times to make it fast.
   I ran to a house about two hundred yards away for help. Two men from the house came with me. As soon as

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   English

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   Handwritten

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   Roman script

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   • Michael Foley