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1. The Three Advices (continued)

   

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   where was his wide. The young girl answered and
   said "I am here" He then understood that it
   was the young girl who was the old man's wife
   then (so) he remembered the 1st advice and set off
   as fast as he could and went into a barn
   While he was in the barn there came along
   a party of soldiers and he overheard their
   conversation. They [?] had killed the old
   man and intended to leave it on the
   lodgers. The man came in the barn came out
   and cut a little piece out of the soldier's
   coat and hid himself again. The soldiers
   then charged him with having murdered
   the old man, but he took out the little
   bit of cloth and fitted it in to the
   soldiers coat and showed it to the judje
   and proved he was innocent of the crime
   The soldiers were then charged with the
   murder themselves and the man was set
   free, and he continued to go home. When
   he came to a stile he was putting his
   foot on the steps when he thought of the
   second advice and he went round the
   road but the men who were with him
   went the near way and they were robbed
   but there companions was not for he (did)

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   AT0910B: The Servant's Good Counsels

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Philomena Wynne

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Corsallagh, Co. Sligo

   Informant

   Robert Wynne

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   c. 55

   Address

   Corsallagh, Co. Sligo