Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)

Date
1938
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0460, Page 0252

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0460, Page 0252

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  1. (no title) (continued)

    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.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. 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.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Martin was talking to Johny another day about what would happen when a person would die.

    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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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    January 1938
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Gaelic script
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