School: Baile Máirtín, Muine Beag

Location:
Ballymartin, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
Bean an Bhreathnaigh
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    tell a story: he said he never heard a story. The two men went to bed and after a while the woman went down to the room. She ordered the stranger to take off his shirt, he said he couldn't because he couldn't sleep without his shirt, "Get the hatchet" Mary said the man. Then the stranger leaped out through the window and the other two after him. They caught him. He was terrified, and he said, "here is my shirt and all but leave me my life". They told him to come on back to bed and that he would have a story to tell when he would go back to Cellbridge.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Dillon
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    14
    Address
    Ballymartin, Co. Carlow