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Updated: June 25, 2025
He told me how once at the fair of Tralee he saw an old tinker-woman taken by the police, and she was struggling with them in the centre of the fair; when suddenly, as if her garments were held together with one cord, she hurled every shred of clothing from her, ran down the street and screamed, 'let this be the barrack yard, which was perfectly understood by the crowd as suggesting that the police strip and beat their prisoners when they get them shut in, in the barrack yard.
"'A green welcome to the woods and the fields, my noble little gentleman, says I. 'Be pleased to honour the poor tinker-woman by accepting the refreshment of a seat and a cup of tea. "'I mayn't eat or drink anything when I am visiting the poor people, says he, 'Mother doesn't allow me.
Tell her she took mighty good care of him Ha! ha! the old tinker-woman had only one chance of teaching him anything but she taught him the patteran!"
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