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1. Irish Superstition (A True Story) (continued)

   

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   Consternation reigned and then one of the sons remembered that when the beggar was leaving the land he saw him cast a grudging or covetous look in the porker's direction and heard him mumble something, so the family all jumped at the conclusion that he had "blinkered" the pig, (as you know a "blinked" pig stops growing and withers away.)
   After a hasty consultation, one of the older sons started off in his bare feet after the aged mendicant, and caught up with him in the late evening as he was making his way into town to sell his day's gatherings tore a rag from his tattered coat, did a marathon back home and immediately burned the cloth under the pig's nose, and to the astonishment and delight of the family, the "rent-payer" got up, shook himself, started to feed at the trough - apparantly as well as ever - and was marketed the following week.

   

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2. Hardships and Struggles of the Early Pioneers

   

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   "Hardships + Struggles of the early Pioneers."
   We, today, who enjoy a high standard of living, and live in an age of modern labour-saving machinery where nearly everything can be done quickly and expertly, little realize the hardships and struggles that our forefathers had to go through to get a living. These true Inishowen incidents will give you an idea of how our ancestors had to

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   Topics

   1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mr Robert Campbell

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   65

   Address

   Collin, Co. Donegal