Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0089
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“There is another story told of a man who was always drinking.”
(continued from previous page)only then he realized that it was All Souls Night, and he wondered how he got out of the graveyard with his life.
Tom then swore that he would never taste a drop of drink from that day out. He kept the pledge for about for about six months, and then of course a thing happened that would make any man break the pledge, a child was born to him. Tom went to town that evening and he met a friend there and they were talking for sometime, and then Tom told him what had happened at home. The other man of course congratulated him, and all that, and then he asked Tom to go and have a drink. Tom said he wouldn't that he hadn't tasted a sip for six months. The other man kept asking him anyways and at last Tom gave in and went to the(continues on next page)