Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0024
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“The dead coach used to travel from Ballyhogue...”
(continued from previous page)One time a man came to a farmer's place to buy pigs and he was very dirty. His face and hands were all dirt. He went into the pig house himself and the man of the house and they were talking and bargaining for a long time but they couldn't come to any agreement about the price of the pigs. So the man went away.
The farmer and his wife were looking at the pigs later on in the day and they noticed that they were all droopy and downhearted looking. The woman said that the man with the dirty face had probably overlooked them, and she said that they would never be right until they would bring back the man. So the husband went for the dirty man and after some time he(continues on next page)