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   There was a man who had two calves. One day he brought the calves to the fair. A man came to buy the calves. The man looked at the calves and said "one of them is very fat and the other is very thin. How is that?"
   "Oh" said the man that owned the calves "the thin fellow spent all his time looking at the fat one eating."

   

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   A man was dying one time. He had a horse and a dog. He made a will and he willed that the horse was to be sold and the money divided among his own friends (cousins) and the dog was to be sold and his wife was to get the price of the dog. After the funeral the wife took..

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. jokes (~6,086)
   2. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. trade
            1. buying and selling (~3,622)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Elizabeth Dunne

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Allenwood North, Co. Kildare

   Informant

   Mr James Dunne

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Allenwood North, Co. Kildare