human
I can't cure her, and the woman that can cure her lives in the village with her. So he went home and told this and the women of the village came into the house and said,
gpt
God bless her, all except one, and nothing would make her come into the house. But they watched her, and one night when a lot of them were sitting round the fire smoking, she let a spit fall on the floor. So they gathered that up (with respects to you), and brought it in to the sick woman and rubbed it to her, and she got well. It might have done as well if they brought a bit of her petticoat and burned it and rubbed the ashes on her. But there's something strange about spits, and if you spit on a child or a beast it's as good as if you'd say,
human
God bless it.
gpt
Tommy, get the bottle and give them all a drop. So he got the bottle and gave a drink to everyone. But my brother was in behind the door, and he missed him and when he came back to the fire she said:
human
You have missed out the man that has the best heart of them all, and there he is behind the door. And when my brother came out she said,
gpt
Give us a verse of a song, and he said,
human
I'm no songster, but she said,
gpt
I know well that you are, and a good dancer as well.
human
The first time you got the touch was the day you had brought a cart of turf from that bog at Ballinabucky to Scahanagh. And when you were in the road you got it, and you had to lie down on the creel of turf till you got to the public road.