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School: Cluain Laighean (B.)

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Cloonlyon, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Riada
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    and a duck killed. Then she went to the door and saw her parents coming. She put the boy under a creel and she put the inside the basin and she put the oat-meal cake inside the plates. When her parents came in they asked the silly boy what was wrong and he said. "I took a flag as big as the oat-meal that is inside the plates and killed the pig as dead as the duck that is inside the basin an now I'm shivering and shaking like the man that is under the creel.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT1360B: Flight of the Woman and her Lover from the Stable
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dominick Kelly
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Address
    Kilgarriff West, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Micheal Kelly
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Kilgarriff West, Co. Mayo