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1. Gilbert and Shiela (continued)

   

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   was hot-tempered but was easily reconciled when her anger cooled down. When Gilbert did anything wrong as often he did the people called him the softy and they said he had no '' cutting '' in him which meant he was easy going and not sharp and indeed they said the truth. He had a piece of land and two cows and a few goats. They grew as much corn as did themselves with care. There were no mills near them so they had to thresh their corn while it was blazing and then it was put in a big stone bowl and rumbled with a beetle to '' shell '' it. Then it was cleaned by an invention of his own. He got a '' four square '' stick and pegged four pieces of rough boards that he hewed with a flint hatchet. Then there were two brackets fastened each side of the room door and the fan was dropped into brackets and a cord or rope made of rush peelings. This rope was wound round each end of the fan in opposition to each other. One of the children was in the room and one in the kitchen. They had a '' wite ''

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   AT0563: The Table, the Ass, and the Stick

   AT1940: The Extraordinary Names

   Language

   English

   Informant

   B. O' Grady

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   14