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School: Craig Dhubh

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Cregduff, Co. Mayo
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Séamus Mac Giobúin
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    it to the king. The next day the king told him that he would go in a hiding and if he got him he would give him his daughter to marry. In the evening the king changed himself into a duck. The boy asked the bottle again and it told him he was mixed with the ducks and he was the last duck in the bunch. The king was very angry when he had to give his daughter. The king was then to kill him but the king's daughter stole away and with the boy and got married and they lived happy after that.
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