Re payment
Love telling this story, which is why I tell it so often
Irish broadcaster, Cairán mac Mathunna was recording an elderly fiddle player who loved very frugally in remote rural Kerry for one of his programmes
They spent the night playing, recording and chatting until Cairán stood up and said, "Now there's the question of a small recording fee"
The old man thought for a minute and finally said, "I have no money in the house at present, but I'm taking a bullock too the mart tomorrow if you don't mind waiting"
Jim Carroll