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1. The Local Fairs (continued)

   

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   and at some clothes are a selling, at other's delph a selling and at other's there are fish biscuits and sweets and things like that a selling. At Ballyjamesduff fair the showman comes round and performs tricks, such as, holding a wheel on his cheek and balancing it, breaking a six inch nail with his teeth, and tricks like that. When an animal is sold it is marked with a red or blue keel, the initial of the man's name is clipped by scissors on the animal's hair or sometimes a mark is put on the ear, by boring a hole in it.

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   “It's a good horse that never stumbles.”

   

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   It's a good horse that never stumbles, and a good wife that never grumbles.
   The loosest spoke in the wheel rattles most.
   Who chatters to you, will chatter of you.
   If life was a thing money could buy, the rich would live and the poor would die.
   In buying a horse, or choosing a wife, shut your eyes and commend yourself to God.
   When ye sit by the fire, yourselves to warm, see that your tongues do your neighbouts no harm.
   An empty ass keeps his kicking end down.

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