Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)

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   “About fifteen or twenty years ago 'twas in the summer time,...”

   

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   house. so begob I got up and went out. 'Twas just breaking day. When I went out the hens were flying here and there, and you'd hear the cock roaring in Taghaion. There was a kind of a board partition across the house, an I saw the tail of something under it. I got the shovel and leant down on it and what turned around back on the shovel but a fine ferret. Begob he was that length! The finest ferret I ever seen. I hit him a box of the shovel and killed him.
   I had a field of turnips just back of the house, and I heard some crows in it so I went out have a look. Well, when I went out there was about two milliion crows in the field and they starting to pull the turnips. They were only after being thinned. There wouldn't be a turnip in the field in half an hour with them. I hunted them off, and I tied the ferret on a bit of a stick, and the devil ever a crow lit on the field after. I got me trowel and stuck down the plants they

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   History Edit

   Date

   January 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • John Carroll