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Ní bhfaighidh tú amach é. Tá mé féin agus caite go rud céanna nuair a bhíodh an gríosach mór thíos a' déanamh a' bácáil agus chonaic mé pota breá thíos ansin pota mór agus dhá lúb ann agus faraor nuair a bhí siad thiar againn féin agus nuair a d'imíonn an gríosach go thine chonaic mé iad ansin a' bruic tar iontu ach níl siad a' bruic an tara anois iontu sé an chaoi a bhfuil siad amuigh sna garraí faoi bhláthannaí ach is iomaí ocras a bhain na potaí sin go hana agus óg agus caithfidh tú cuimhneamh ansin a Mháirtín nuair a bhíodh cearcaí acu agus géabhaí agus lachain chaithfí pota póilíní a chur síos ansin tráthnóna le agus mangles agus turms rite go na ba agus go gcaithfeadh siad cúpla cáca bot a dhéanamh ansin agus bhí obair mór air tógáil an luaidh. Sin é a ghlanadh agus cur síos gríos gríosach eile. Bhíodh dhá bhácós ar thaobh an tine acu.

You won’t find it out. I myself am worn out from the same thing when the big embers used to be down below doing the baking and I saw a fine pot down there, a big pot with two handles on it, and alas, when they were behind us themselves and when the embers would turn to fire I saw them then, the badgers coming at them, but the badgers aren’t in them now, it’s the way they are out in the gardens under the flowers, but those pots caused much hunger for both old and young, and you must remember then, Máirtín, when they used to have hens and geese and ducks, a police pot would have to be put down there in the evening with mangles and turnips run to the cows, and they’d have to make a couple of batch cakes then, and there was big work in lifting the lead. That’s it, cleaning it and putting down another ember fire. They used to have two ovens on either side of the fire.