Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)

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

   

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   were after pulling, and they never lost an hour. But only for the ferret that morning wouldn't I be without me field of turnips. So he was the lucky ferret after all.

   

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2. Hard Work

   

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   Hard Work- There was an old fellow by the name of John Cullen working over in Ballyclumack with a man by the same of Mike Martin. John was a very devout, holy, build of a little man. This day Martin says to him: "Aren't you going is the chapel Friday Johnny?" says he. "Whats an?" Says Johny. "This is Good Friday" says Martin. "Oh begod I have Good Friday here every day with you" says Johnny. Martin was a tough man to work for. The food was bad, and the pay was small, the only thing that was anyway plenty, there was work.

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   Date

   January 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

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   • John Carroll

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   “Martin was talking to Johny another day about what would happen when a person would die.”

   

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   Martin was talking to Johnny another day about what would happen when a person would die. Martin said that when they'd die

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