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1. The Sapper's Country Dinner (continued)

   

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   them on the slabs until they were dry. After that she got the mill-stone and ground it, then she boiled it and it turned out a lovely meal. When the Sapper went away he praised the dinner he got in the country house.

   

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2. Houses Long Ago

   

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   About four hundred years ago Irish houses were bult on a little hill. There were a high wall all around every one of these houses. There were wolves in Ireland at that time. That is why they used to put the walls around them. The walls were about five feet tall and one or 2 feet wide. There used to be water between the wall sometimes. And boiling water on the top of the wall.

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. residential buildings (~2,723)
   2. products
      1. food products (~3,601)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Francis Connolly

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Anne Keaney

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   70