School: Scoil na mBráthar, Loch Garman (roll number 16742)

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1. Humorous Story - Mick the Piper (continued)

   

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   and won't you come with us".

   Next morning and it still very early Mick woke up. Now it was the moon that was shining and Mick thought it was the sun so he got up thinking that it was very late.

   Now Mick had a wooden leg and when he got up he forgot the leg. He went off to Enniscorthy to the fair. That morning when the family got up there was not a sign of Mick and the farmer's wife said, "Glory be to God, if she hasn't eaten up ould Mick". Looking around they found the wooden leg and this was enough to prove he was eaten up. They went off to the fair making up their minds not to tell anybody about the man. They sold the cow, telling the buyer, "Its the nicest beast that ivir lived".

   When they were going up the street, who did they see but Mick and he was playing his pipes. The racket they made was the worst racket ever made in 'Scorthy', because they thought it was Mick's ghost they saw. When Mick explained, everything was made all right.

   

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Colm A. O' Sullivan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Wexford, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   Mrs O' Connor

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   85

   Address

   Killeens, Co. Wexford