Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 3)

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1. Time of the Priest-Hunters (continued)

   

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   a child. "How was it", says he, "that I saw the priest and the others did not?" "I'll tell you", says the old nurse "the reason why you could see him, and they could not is I got you baptised, in the Catholic Church, when you were a child, wan day I got a chance. That's why you saw him. It was said that the young fellow turned a Catholic after that.

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2. Béaloideas ó Chill Uird

   “Katie Kelly went down to Kilworth wan evening...”

   

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   Katie Kelly went down to Kilworth wan evening just the same as I'd go down now. She knocked about the village for a while . 'Twas a very hazy kind of a night.
   When she came came home just as she was going to go in the wicket a stand came on her; and she saw the woman leaning over the half-door looking in at the children who were playing inside in the house.
   When she took the hasp off the wicket the woman turned into the laurel and she saw no more

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