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    A few years ago there lived a man named Andy Ryan. He lived near Eglish on the bog road. He was a great story teller. One of his stories was as follows. One day he was at a coursing and at that time they used to rise the hares out in the fields. A hare got up and the hounds were slipped. The hare and hounds went off across the fields until they came to a house.The people in the house were after a churning and the churn was washed and left out in the yard. On came the hare and hounds through the yard. "Where do you think the hare went?" said Andy. "Into the churn" said the lads that were listening. "No, said Andy, out by the side of it
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Moore
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Address
    Borrisokane, Co. Tipperary