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1. Folklore Story - A Musician (continued)

   

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   you would show me how to play. Then the wolf and the musician went on together until they came to an oak tree. There was a crack in the middle of the trunk. The musician said to the wolf 'put your fore feet into that crack'; the wolf did so. Then the musician took up a stone, and hammered the wolfs feet into the crack so that he would make him a prisoner, and the musician said to him 'be good until I come back'. Then the musician went off. The wolf kept biting until he got off. Then the wolf went on until he came to another tree where there was a hare, and the musician had tied the hare to the tree with a string, and he was shouting for help, and the wolf set the hare free. So the hare and the wolf went off, and when the musician came back they were gone.

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2. Folklore Story - The Lazy Boy

   

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   Once there was a boy named Thomas Smith in County Meath. He was a lazy boy and he did not like to get up early. His father (ha) had to pull him out of bed every morning. One day as Tom

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