Irish Folk Tales [S.S. Col.] [Fairy Tales col.] by Various (Glassie Henry - Ed.)

Author:Various (Glassie, Henry - Ed.) [Various (Glassie, Henry - Ed.)]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Anthologies (various), Fairy Tales, Fantasty, Fiction, Folk Tales, Folklore, Ireland, Short Stories
ISBN: 978-0-307-82824-8
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2012-08-29T03:00:00+00:00

A PIG ON THE ROAD FROM GORT

MR. STEPHENS GALWAY

LADY GREGORY 1920

There was a man coming along the road from Gort to Garryland one night, and he had a drop taken, and before him on the road he saw a pig walking. And having a drop in, he gave a shout and made a kick at it and bid it get out of that.

And from the time he got home, his arm had swelled from the shoulder to be as big as a bag, and he couldn’t use his hand with the pain in it. And his wife brought him after a few days to a woman that used to do cures at Rahasane.

And on the road all she could do would hardly keep him from lying down to sleep on the grass. And when they got to the woman, she knew all that happened, and says she: “It’s well for you that your wife didn’t let you fall asleep on the grass, for if you had done that but for an instant, you’d be a gone man.”

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