Volume: CBÉ 0189
- Date
- 1935
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- Locations
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0189, Page 274
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“I was coming home wan night from a card school.”
I was coming home wan night from a card school. 'Twas a very dark night and Twas late.
It used to be a great pastime in them times card playing. There used to be little cardsheds here and there about the countryside. There is one of these sheds yet in Brownscastle and another in Harperstown, The boys turn in there of a Sunday evening, and every night and play away.
Well as I was coming along the road what did I stumble into but a big hairy ass.
"Begod," says I, 'tis the devil surely"