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1. Local Traditions - Miscellaneous

   

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   In the summary of the folk-tale given on page 151 there occurs the "run":

   Where the winds never blew,

   And the cocks never crew,

   And the print of man's foot was never seen.

   
   One of the boys brought me, in an absolutely disjointed and bald form, the following "verse" as he called it and which is apparently a variation of the "run" above:

   Where the winds never blew

   And the cocks never crew

   And Simple Harry never blew his horn

   

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2. Local Traditions - Miscellaneous

   

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   The following, of which I have left the fourth line incomplete as being coarse, was the preliminary and the accompaniment to a mock threshing jocosely given to a lad who was stretched in a proper manner across his father's knees. The drubbing was administered with the open hands and the action was timed to the words bula-hula ..... Boys enjoyed this merry form of correction until some practical joker played the joke "in earnest" You are my son, you have no crace, You have transgressed before my face, And for the act that you have done I'll take revenge upon... bulla-hulla, bulla-hulla, bulla-hulla.... Snce Devaney

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Daithí O Ceanntabhail

   Gender

   Male

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Informant

   Michael Devaney

   Gender

   Male

3. Local Traditions - Miscellaneous

   

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   There was this woman who used to keep geese. She used

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