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   “There was once a rich man and he had a daughter and he said he would give his daughter to any man who would tell him a story that would last for ever.”

   

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   he had many barns of oats and every day a "luácas would come and take a grain of oats and then another would come and take another grain and so on till the oats would never be finished. When the man heard this story he said to the wise man "Ah go away from me and take my daughter with you if that is the story you have to tell me".

   

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   “One day a painter was painting a church and he was whistling a fast tune but still he was working and when the priest heard him he came out and said "Oh, it is not right to be whistling in a church, why don't you sing a hymn.”

   

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   One day a painter was painting a church and he was whistling a fast tune but still he was working and when the priest heard him he came out and said "Oh, it is not right to be whistling in a church, why don't you sing a hymn. So the painter started singing a hymn and the air was a slow [?] (by and by the) the painter kept time with the brush and then the priest came out and he said "Ah, that will not do me at all you can go and start whistling the song you were at a while ago."

   

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Póilín Ní Annáin

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   12

   Address

   Mullaghmore North, Co. Galway

   Informant

   James Hannon

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   50

   Address

   Mullaghmore North, Co. Galway