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1. Travelling Folk (continued)

   

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   travelling workmen call to farmers houses to look for lodgings.

   When a travelling workman visits a farmers house and asks for a few nights lodgings the people of the house welcome him and invite him into the house and gives him tea, then when night would come the whole family would sit down by the fireside and the traveller would commence to tell stories about what he saw and heard of in his travells and the farmer and his wife and family would be delighted with his stories because they would be so strange and interesting. When bedtime would come the sons of the farmer would make some kind of a bed for the traveller in the nearest corner to the fire. In the morning the woman of the house would give him a mug of hot tea and after that the traveller would thank the people and travel on. Travelling workmen usually carry big plants with them, and the reasons they do are. When they would be going to a country house they would be

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bartholomew Grace

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Uppertown, Co. Wicklow