Volume: CBÉ 0221

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   “There was a man and his wife living wan time...”

   

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   There was a man and his wife living wan time and they used to be always fighting and squawbling about the work they had to do. She to to say that he did nothing on the land all day and she would do twice as much if she herself won out. He used to tell her that she had nothing at all to do but sit down all day by the fire warming her toes in the ashes. The fighting went so high at last that they decided to change their work. She said that if they did that he would never tell her that she had nothing to do again. "Well" says he "you tell me now what I should do and I'm the boy that will do it." Well says she you happened on a fairly busy day today. The first thing that you can do is go down to the cowhouse and milk the cow then bring in the milk

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   History Edit

   Date

   1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Folktales index

   AT1408: The Man who Does his Wife's Work

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Paddy Roche