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The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 5 (of 8)

Note B — VILLAGE GHOSTS

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I wonder why she had white borders to her cap. The old Mayo woman, who has told me so many tales, has told me that her brother-in-law saw ‘a woman with white borders to her cap going round the stacks in a field, and soon after he got a hurt, and he died in six months.’

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