Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0391
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“There was a rath in a certain place wan time...”
(continued from previous page)them anyhow and when he got home that night he started to swell, and kept swelling away until he died.
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“When people are shelling peas if they happen on a pea...”
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“When a hen lays a small egg like a marble taw...”
When a hen lays a small egg like a marble taw, it is stuck n the thatch, this is counted very lucky altogether. Every small egg of that kind laid by a hen is placed in the thatch and never taken out. It is counted very unlucky to do so. In some houses rows of these eggs will be seen stuck in the thatch, and when the thatcher comes along, he is strongly(continues on next page)