Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0179
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“There was an ould fella waken' in Galbally wan time...”
(continued from previous page)goes the knees and up comes the dead man's head and the pipe in his mouth. All the people in the room rushed out for they thought that the dead man had come to life
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“There was a blessed well wan time an' it used to cure all kinds...”
There was a blessed well wan time an; it used to cure nearly all kinds of complaints. There was wan man and he made a regular (?) of the well. He had a dog at that time and he got a sore paw, and he went to the well and there was somebody there and he threw the dog inta it for sport saying in a mockin' way that the dog would be cured when he would take him out. When he did pull out the dog he was dead. So afterwards he gave up makin fun of the well.