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1. Travelling Folk (continued)

   

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   to hear them, tell stories of distant parts in Eire, and from across the Border. The people also like to hear them playing the gramophones, that they have nearly always with them.

   

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2. Proverbs

   

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   1. The man who sows much in the Spring, will have pleanty to reap in the Autumn. 2. The wise man who has none to-day will have some to-morrow, while the fool who has pleanty to-day will have none to-morrow. 3. An empty sack, is easily carried, and the full one you carry with a will. 4. Too many counsellors, too many advices.

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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
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         1. travellers (~3,023)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eddie Carroll

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   John Mc Loughlin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lyonstown, Co. Roscommon