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1. Kiant and Peggien (continued)

   

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   the kettle boiled" said she and she greatly surprised. "Here Grádheann and take his bundle and leave it back in the bed" said Peggien
   and she in a great fuss.
   So after a while they had a big blazer of a fire down and the kettle boiled and the door opened. They were all expecting Phriest to walk
   in every minute and they waited there for a long time and at times Peggien used to say "ye ought to go up the road and meet him you
   wouldn't know what is keeping him this length" and Kiant would say "won't he be down with the Cluainkeen lads anyway" and he not letting on at all about what happened and Phriest asleep beyond in England.
   All the lads waited there until about two o'clock and then they all went home but Kiant waited outside sitting on the side of the road
   and listening to Peggien and Grádheann sitting within around the fire talking. At last Peggien said "go back and bring over his bundle
   until we see what he brought, I'm sure he brought you a pair of shoes anyhow". "Muise I'm sure he did" said Grádheann.
   The she brought over the bundle and when they opened it out spilled all the old shoes and old rags that were out in the garden with
   hundreds of years. Then they knew what happened and the trick Kiant played on them but when he heard Peggien getting into a rage he hooked it home and never darkened her door again for six months.

   

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. jokes (~6,086)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Pat O' Reilly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Carrowntanlis, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Patrick O' Reilly

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Address

   Carrowntanlis, Co. Galway