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They be quare in themselves, them MacDonnells, unchancy and strange; I've heard saidNe'er a sowl's after gettin' his death on our Inish by land or by say,
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Ere the scraws were cut square on his grave, or the wather closed over his head;
For 'tis more than their neighbours they know and they see in the times far away.
Folks there be that the same sort of sight is a gift wid from father to son,
And from mother to daughter; I mind all the young ones was goin' in dread,
When meself was a girl, of owld Molly's black cloak and her petticoat red;
If we spied her along on the road, to the dykes and the ditches we'd run.
'Tis herself that was grandfather's sister to Owen, and thirty year dead,
But there's talk in it yet wid our folk of the quare cruel turn Molly done
Agin Norah Gillespie.
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