Volume: CBÉ 0190

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   “This is a rhyme that a person must say without drawing his breath.”

   

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   bird a bird in the egg, an egg in the nest, anest on the twig, a twig on the tree, a tree on the hill, and the hill there still and the grass growing all round and round.

   

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   “There was a travelling man used to go around this county about fifty years ago...”

   

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   There was a travelling man used to go around this county about fifty years ago by the name of Paddy Hunt. He was supposed to be a prophet. He said that "mad eye was to cross the city over the line wan it stride and the black man was to ride on a white horse. "
   That was Parnell, he was to go with the Catholic people. Paddy Hunt said there were too many cross bastardly people in the country and especially in the county Wexford, and

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   Date

   16 Aibreán 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Eamonn Ó Mirneagh