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1. An Old Story

   

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   In olden times there lived a man in the townland of Drumscridian. He always went to the market of Cavan when he would have a ferkin of butter finished to sell it.
   The way he would bring the ferkin to the market was with an ass and "bardogs".
   He would put the ferkin into one of the "bardogs" and balance it with stones in the other "bardog".
   When he died his son lived on the farm.
   Every thing he saw his father do before he died he would do the same.
   One year he had two ferkins of butter for every market and he would put the two ferkins in one "bardog" and balance them with stones in the other "bardog". Every person he met from his own house to Cavan asked him why he did not put a ferkin in each "bardog" not heed putting any stones in the "bardog" but he would tell them that was the way his father used to do it.
   The next year he had a great crop of flax.
   The summer was very dry and there was no water to be got any where.
   The hole his father used to drown the flax in was dried up and he would not drown his flax in any other hole but this one.
   So when he had the flax ready to drown it he

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs Charles Conaty

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   56

   Address

   Drumscruddan, Co. Cavan