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   “There was a woman one time lived in the County Wexford.”

   

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   floor of his room. He gripped up the loaf of bread and ran out on deck and jumped into the water and swam for the shore with all his might holdin onto the loaf of bread up over his head with wan hand and swimming with the other. He reached the shore anyhow and everybody thought he was after goin mad, but (then) John wouldn't stay in the boat when he saw the rats in it. A lot of people asked him why he jumped out of the boat and he told them that he had forgotten his purse and that the was goin' back for it. John then went around town and after some time he came back again and wanted to find out when was the next boat leaving for Waterford. He was told that the next boat would leave the next day at a certain

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   History Edit

   Date

   1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Folktales index—relevant types

   AT0311: Rescue by the Sister

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • William Doyle