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School: Ballysadare (C.) (roll number 9922)

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  1. A Story I Have Heard Locally

    “Once upon a time a time a woman was travelling along a road.”

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    This story was told to me about 1 month ago by my mother. The story begins like this. Once upon a time a woman was travelling along a road. She became very thirsty and as she was approaching a little cottage she decided to go in and ask for a drink. This she succeeded in doing. And while she was drinking out of a certain bowl a little pig suddenly ran in on the floor and began creating an awful uproar by knocking down all the furniture in the kitchen
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Gilmartin
    Gender
    Female