younger ones all take great pleasure in weeding, etc. and the older women sit on a seat or in a shady place and reads or takes a "knap". About two o'clock all are astir again. The men go off to their work in the fields and the women go in and make the tea, as all are eager for it by this time. The women usually get their own tea first, and then it is brought out to the men in the field.
Apple cakes are made when the apples are plentiful and rhubarb cakes are also made and even blackberry cakes. The women make delicious jam from blackberries and apples and preserve it for the winter use.
From May to September the work in the house is much the same. There is

was there in the house and what was more the divil a penny had he to buy a bit of end thread. This time they used to make sieves from briars. The briars were cut and the thorns and leaves removed and and then split and split again until they were as big or as thick as "fungs" These were then placed in the chimney to wither and harden so that they could be twisted any way at all.
So this man had a good supply of these in the chimney and they were fairly withered now
So he said that he would sew the skin on to the horse by means of the briars. Out he goes anyhow and started at the job and the horse stayed quiet enough for him and after about an hour's hard work he was finished with the job and he let out the horse in a field to graze and he wasn't a hair the worse. When the spring came and everything began to bud didn't the briars that were used in sewing the horse bud too and leaves came out on them and later flowers and in the end blackberries grew and ripened on him and they were the finest and the sweetest blackberries that

anyone ever late and the man came an ate them whenever he was hungary. There was an awful crow on the horse and when they were all eaten he gave another crow. That year the horse or the brains produced these crows of blackberries and the man made black berry jam and he had a supply for the following year. Whenever grass was scarce and the horse wasn't well fed he used to ate the leaves off the briars and so fed himself.