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Fairy Legends and Traditions: Diarmid Bawn, The Piper

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ONE stormy night Patrick Burke was seated in the chimney corner, smoking his pjpe quite contentedly after his hard day's work; his two little boys were roasting potatoes in the ashes, while his rosy daughter held a splinter [a splinter, or slip of bog-deal, which, being dipped in tallow, is used as a candle] to her mother, who, seated on a siesteen [a low block-like seat, made of straw bands firmly sewed or bound together], was mending a rent in Patrick's old coat; and Judy, the maid, was…

Fairy Legends and Traditions: Diarmid Bawn, The Piper

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