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   way. That night he was locked up and he sat down thinking and waiting when the girl came to him again and told him not to worry that she would have two horses ready at daybreak to take the two of them to the boy’s father’s and mother’s home.
   Next morning the two of them set off on their (journing) journey. When the girls’ father found they were gone he set off with an army of men on horseback. When the girl and boy were a long distance off the girl told the boy to look behind him to see if there was anybody coming. And when he did so he told her that he saw an army of men riding on horseback coming behind them. The girl told him to take a drop of sweat from the horse and told him to fling it behind him and when he did so there appeared a big ocean and when the horsemen came up to it and were trying to cross it the boy and the girl got farther away.
   When they were riding a good while she told him to look behind again and when he did so he told her he seen (saw) the army of men coming close behind them and she told him to take a bit of wood from the horses ear and to fling it behind him as far as he could and when he did so a great big thick wood appeared and

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   AT0313: The Girl as Helper

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Val Muldowney

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Mrs Mc Guigan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   73

   Address

   Ballina, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Mrs Broderick

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Female

   Occupation

   Shoemaker's wife

   Address

   Ballina, Co. Mayo