Volume: CBÉ 0221

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   “There was a smith one time and he was goin' home late at night...”

   

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   bag and it was full of bits of tin, long bits, and short bits and thin corner bits and all sorts of bits o’ tin. He asked the divil to make the bits of tin into a can, The divil laughed and threw the bits of tin up in the air and the finest can that you ever saw came down. “My poor fella” says the divil “you’re booked for the down train and there is no return ticket either”. Then the called over the tailor and he asked him had he the money or had he some hard trick for him to do. The tailor produced a whole lot of trimmings of cloth and asked the divil to make a suit of clothes out of them and the divil threw them up into the air and they came down the finest suit that anybody ever saw. “Well” says the divil “that is the finest suit that

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   History Edit

   Date

   13 July 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Máirtín Leighlin