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   “I have heard another story of a man who had three sons.”

   

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   laugh out in earnest. Anyhow the three of them lived away together for sometime and the youngest son was his best to try and please his two brothers, but it was no use. James found that no matter what he done it wouldn’t do them. It was very hard for him to live with them he found out. The two brothers got very careless about their work on the farm and at last all their crops began to go against them and some their animals died and they were in no luck at all. And worse than all they began to drink and used be found in the public houses every day, and even in the middle of the day when every sensible man would be working. You may be sure the kind of a life that poor James had

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   History Edit

   Date

   9 August 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Seán Ó Nualláin