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   “There was a man and a woman living in Ireland long ago.”

   

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   expect anything to happen. When the hour was up the son beckoned at the father to come away. He rose off the chair and home they came. The father and son slept in the same room. Things remained so until the morning the father was surprised why the woman was not busy around the house cooking the breakfast as usual. He called the son and told him the morning was spent on what was the matter with the woman. "She was never before so long without having breakfast ready." It might be soon you will know the doings of this lassie" said the son. The father got up put down the kettle and it boiled still there was no trace of the woman. He knocked at the door of the room where the woman was sleeping and got no answer, and when he opened the door, he was surprised when he saw the child dead, and the woman as contented as ever, no tear no smile in her face. The father felt sad for the child, and what excuse would they give the captain if he would ever come back. He opened the door of the son's room and told him his sad story. "Ah" said the son "what did I tell you. The "Ban Bic" the captain brought was no great bargain." "Our only plan is to keep it quiet and let no man be wiser." They buried the child without funeral or wake and after that the son suggested the best thing they could do was to bury the woman alive. He also said that the captain would

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   AT0712: Crescentia

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Andrew Keane

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   12

   Address

   Curraheen, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Patrick Griffin

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   68

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Cappananee, Co. Kerry