Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)

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   "There's a hole on the house", said the minister when they were about to burn 'Lundy-foot" (c.1870)
   "Hide & seek" becomes "Hide & go seek"
   If you enter while the people are eating sat "Sit yous merry"(=Sityez merry)
   "By your lave" for "pardon me, when a person wishes to pass between you & the fire, etc.
   "A cure for sore eyes to see you" "We'll have to shake green rushes under your feet" (you'r such a stranger & so welcome. Céad míle fáilte.
   You'd think his oul' head wore out 3 or 4 bodies.
   Holly & Ivy went to the wood
   Holly brought boy home by the "lug" (ear)
   A slate pencil is called a "cutter".
   Hydrophobia up to 50 years ago people dreaded Hydrophobia as much as they fear cancer today. As soon as Pat Dowling, Herd, Castletown had a droop taken his only topic was hydrophobia. He had spent some time in Australia - His two daughters are nuns in Derry In 1894 Tom Heydon, ploughman, Bennekerry, wife & 6 children were bitten by a mad dog. They were all sent to Paris to P & returned cured. Before that there was no cure execution or committed to an asylum for the insane.

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