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   “Long ago in Ireland the young boys always gathered nuts for November's night.”

   

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   Long ago in Ireland the young boys always gathered nuts for November's night. On one occasion three boys gathered nuts and each of them had a little bag full. One of the boys got ill and he died. He gave orders before he died to put his nuts into his coffin. On November's night the other two boys began to eat the nuts. They said they had not enough and that they had better go and get the nuts from where the little boy was buried. They began to dig and after a while they found them. Then they sat down beside the wall and began to divide the nuts. One of the boys kept on says "two for you" two for me" It happened that a Protestant's servant was passing by the graveyard and heard the talk and thought it was God and Devil dividing the

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peggy Flynn

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Gortaskibbole, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Mrs Barbara Walsh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Gortaskibbole, Co. Mayo