School: Gleann Gabhna, Tulach an Iarainn

Location:
Glengoura Lower, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire Ní Dhubhshláinghe
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    was saying "that they may never come up". They treated him like the first man and gave him a beating. So he asked them what, he say, would he say, they told him to say one this year, and two next year. As he went on farther he met a funeral and he was saying "one this year and two next year". One of the people at the funeral treated him like the others so he asked them what would he say. They told him say R.I.P. So the next man he met was hunting a fox who was after visiting his fowl house and the boy was saying R.I.P. so he treated him the same way as the others and told him to say "hang the brute". The next
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT1696: “What Should I have Said (Done)?”
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Hogan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilcronat, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Daniel Hogan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilcronat, Co. Cork