School: Kilmacoo, Avoca
- Location:
- Kilmacoo, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chosgair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0925, Page 351
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- Travelling people are always roving around on fair days They sell and buy They sell jewelery mats delph and other things they buy rabbits skins rags hair and especially old asses and horses They never keep the same thing the second day.In olden times they were very much welcome because they brought the news of the country to the people and they played lovely music One young man went around our district about 70 or 80 years ago He was very rich and he used to be pretending he was very poor he had an old horses and he used to go a round on horse back One day he went in to a house and he asked the girl of the house for a drink of water for the horse in the bread basin she gave it to himHe went to cuple more houses and he asked for a drink of water for the horse in the bread basin and they gave it to himAt last he went in to a little thatched house and he asked for a drink for the horse in the bread basin The girl of the house told him to be going He went back to her and told her why he asked for the drink in the bread basin He married her because it was a clean house keeper he wanted
