Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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1. Mr Edward's Fetch (continued)

   

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   "told his neighbours what he had seen 'old Faulkner deceased' got a new lease of life"

   

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2. Mistaken Identity

   

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   So obnoxious was the name of Faulkner that generation after generation of men and boys have been "crústing" stones at splendid stone effigy of our Lord placed over the garden gate mistaking it for Faulkner's head. " Let's have a peg at oul' Faulkners' head. He evicted or transported so and so.

   

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   Date

   1908

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Pádruig Mac Domhnaill

3. Aunt Sally

   

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   The appliance used in my young days for loading a cock (tram or tramp) of hay onto a cart was known as Aunt Sally. 3 long wooden poles about 25' high joined at top. Small wheel for travelling fitted to base of each pole. Poles held in place by 3 chains a,b and c. Chain c can be opened to allow Aunt Sally to take up position so that the apex of the tripod (from wh hangs a pulley-block) is vertically above apex of the cock to be lifted. 2 iron bars of wh 2 ends are shown A and B) are driven in under the cock. Chain passed through pulley-block are attached; horse is yoked out of cable X and up goes your cock. Cart is back in under (after opening chain c). Cock is let down and cart, drawn off and Aunt Sally
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   Drawing is defective. The 2 cables A and B meet too near the pulley.
   The iron bar A-B had to be pushed in from one side. A similar one crossed it at rt angles under cock also

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