Merry Christmas to all! Sally O'Sullivan Bair Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Riobard O' Dwyer via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: >Though today is Christmas Day, it is also a day when people visit the >graves of their own people. Joan & myself are just home from visiting the >grave of my parents in the fairly new graveyard in Gortnabulliga, close to >Eyeries Village; to the grave of Joan's parents in the upper graveyard in >Foildarrig, near the town of Castletownbere; and to the graves of my >ancestors in the Lower Graveyard in Foildarrig. I was telling a man in >Gortnabulliga Graveyard of a story I heard many years ago. There were these >two Doctors, and, at the time, experiments were being carried out on dead >bodies. Anyhow, the two Doctors visited the ancient Glebe graveyard, about >a mile to the west of Castletownbere, and, in the middle of a dark night, >began digging for the bones of one particular man who was buried down the >field. A local man, who had heard that the two Doctors were to go digging >that night, went to the graveyard before the two Doctors had arrived, and >hid behind a clump of furze bushes close by. In case they would be seen, >the two Doctors arrived in the middle of the night. The wind was howling. >They began to dig, and had gotten down a few feet when the man behind the >furze bushes left out a loud roar -- "waau-ah-uuu-ah". The two Doctors >dropped their shovels and "took off" like as if they were being chased by a >typhoon. The more they ran, the louder your man was roaring "wooooooo --- >ah ah" after them. The two Doctors didn't wait to open the gate; they >jumped headlong over the wall; got up like two March hares; and ran and ran >until they reached the main road. "A ghost; a ghost" they cried. They never >again "visited" the Glebe graveyard, and were glad to do their >experimenting elsewhere. Riobard. > > > > > > > > > >-- >Riobard (O'Dwyer) > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message