Word: suckin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stomicks empty of food-fools prayin' to God, and starvin' on their knays. Ireland at its bist was a hard country-we lived wit the pigs and the geese-we petted thim an' thin we ate thim." Grandfather Tully lived through the Great Famine "a-suckin' the wind and drinkin' the rain on the bogs,'' then migrated to Ohio there to continue his ditching, peddling, champion drinking, yarn-swapping. Whether he was better off in Ohio, who can say-his son's possessions were "a wife, six children, two cows...
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