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Fairy Legends and Traditions: Ned Sheehy's Excuse

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NED SHEEHY was servant-man to Richard Gumbleton, esquire, of Mountbally, Gumbletonmore, in the north of the county of Cork; and a better servant than Ned was not to be found in that honest county, from Cape Clear to the Kilworth Mountains; for nobody - no, not his worst enemy - could say a word against him, only that he was rather given to drinking, idling, lying, and loitering, especially the last; for send Ned of a five minute message at nine o'clock in the morning, and you were a lucky man…

Fairy Legends and Traditions: Ned Sheehy's Excuse

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