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School: Strang's Mills, Kilmacow

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Strangsmill, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Richard Rellis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 290

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    Once upon a time there was a man and he was a great joker. He was always playing tricks on people & he was a great torment to all He played some joke on a Protestant minister who was very angry. The minister decided to put an end to this joking if possible. One day he happened to meet this joker at a dinner. After much sparring between them the minister lured him into making a wager. The wager was: The joker was to steal a sheet from the minister's bed in the night time unknown to the minister. The joker waited until one dark night and then he went to the graveyard & dug up a corpse just buried a day. He got a ladder & put it against the window & lifted the corpse up above his head. He took care to make some noise to attract the minister's attention. He succeeded. The minister heard the noise & awakened his wife & then he reached for his gun. He intended to fire
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT1525: The Master Thief
    Language
    English
    Informant
    John Sweeney
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Dunkitt, Co. Kilkenny