Volume: CBÉ 0189

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1. Long Ago

   

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   Long ago when I was a young man we used to spend a day binding for a schilling.
   The food we had was cutting stirabout and biates three times a day and butter that used leaping out of the cans. We never had tea, unless maybe Christmas Day.
   The men used to mous with seythes and hooks and the women and young chaps used to the binding
   Farmers, long ago, would never give a drop of milk to anyone on the 1st of May, for fear of the pisreogs.
   During Lent the people used take no milk with the porridge. Then used have big barley dumplins, and big wheat dumplins and water.
   In the time of the Harvest

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Mrs Harpur