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   haunt. The place abounded with big clumps of whins very thick and close and the spaces between these clumps provided the best place that could be got for putting up a tinker's tent.

   The bog was, moreover very near and besides Willie never grudged the tinkers' horse or ass or goat what they could pick or the coarse grass.

   But this was in the old days when the tinkers slept either under a cart or in a rude tent ( or tents ) made by throwing an old piece of canvas over four sticks stuck slanting into the ground about three feet apart at the base and meeting at the top, two at one end of the tent, and two at the other, the tent itself being about the length of a man; and at the mouth or entrance of which a big fire was always lighted.

   That's a thing of the past. Every group of tinkers now has its covered van: horse drawn, and well sprung. Some have two or more vans

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. people by social grouping
         1. travellers (~3,023)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Micheál Ó Gealbháin

   Gender

   Male