School: Baile Máirtín, Muine Beag

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1. An Old Story

   

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   There was an old married couple in the country a long time ago. When he would get sick she would mind him night and day: when she would get sick he did the same. They were fond of one another. Every night he would take out his pipe. He smoked an ounce of tobacco every week. So he died and when he was going to be buried his wife asked a man would it do to put the pipe in the grave with him. He told her to put it on the window stool. She did so and every morning the pipe would be smoked. So one night she stayed up to see her husband and that night he did not come. She was sorry for staying up and keeping away her husband so she went to bed. Every morning she got a note in the pipe saying "I want my coat" and she said she had it given away in charity. She put a note in the pipe to ask him if money would do and he said it would. She stayed putting it in. It was always gone every night and the tobacco smoked. She stayed in the garden and watched. She became suspicious so she watched.

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Mac Kelvie

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   11

   Address

   Kilcloney, Co. Carlow