Volume: CBÉ 0221
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“There was a man once who had a great farm of land..”
(continued from previous page)he was working with was a very well off man. Then one morning Tom Walsh came to Mike Dolan and says ho Mike I was thinking of taking a shilling off your wages in the week, as all the farmers are doing, and it won't effect you much for you are not a spender and you have no wife or family." When Mike heard this he was dumbfounded entirely and didn't know what to say for a moment. "Well" says he at last. "I'm working for you and your family for almost thirty years and I have the same wages since I started with you and I have worked as hard as any three men for you all that time and I often intended asking you for a raise but I never had the heart, but I never in my life expected you to say it to me what you said. " "Well" says Tom "I can't afford to pay you the wages that(continues on next page)