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1. A Funny Story

   “Long ago there lived together a young boy and his mother.”

   

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   A Funny Story Long ago there lived together a young boy and his mother. The woman was a widow and the boy was a simpleton. They had a field of oats and one night there came a storm which blew away the oats. In the morning the boy was mad when he saw that his oats was gone and he said he would follow the wing and got back his oats. Early the next morning he started off after the wind and in the evening he came to a cottage where he lodged for the night. The next day he started off and overtook the wind. He told the wind that he wanted something in return for the oats and so the wind gave him a goose that

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. jokes (~6,086)

   Folktales index

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   J. Mc Partland

   Informant

   Thomas Keaney

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballysadare, Co. Sligo