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School: Beárna, Galbally (roll number 12655)

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Barna, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
C. Ó Máirtín
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    When a fox came to a foul house he found a small hole in the house where he went in. So he went in and killed all the hens and when he wanted to come out, but, he could not he was too big and the hole was too small. The fox did not know what to do, after a while he thought of a plan he stretched himself out on the ground and pretended to be dead, When the woman of the house came out she looked at all her dead hens and she caught the fox and threw him out and he got on his feet and ran as quick as he could.
    Once when a man was after steeling something valuable he was going to be hanged. And when the
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT0001: The Theft of Fish
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballynamuddagh, Co. Limerick