Volume: CBÉ 0189

Date
1935
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0189, Page 247

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0189, Page 247

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  1. There was a gentleman of another day driving along the road. He stopped to ask the way to such a place.
    The servant went in first. 'Twas a tailor's house. The tailor was working up on the table and the wife was doing her own work in the kitchen. He asked the road to such a place, but he got no answer. He asked her first and then he asked the tailor, but they were both drunk.
    He went out and told master that they were to drunkies. The master came in himself. He went up to the woman and ask her but he got no answer. He put his hands around her, and began
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    March 1936
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant