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  • So it came on to thunder an’ lighten like as all the avil daymons in the univarse were fightin’ wid cannons in the shky, an’ by an’ by there was a clap loud enough to shplit yer skull an’ Barney woke up.

    Irish Wonders 1878

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  • "So it came on to thunder an’ lighten like as all the avil daymons in the univarse were fightin’ wid cannons in the shky, an’ by an’ by there was a clap loud enough to shplit yer skull an’ Barney woke up."

    - D. R. McAnally, Jr., 'Irish Wonders', 1938.

    July 15, 2012