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1. Jack and the Beanstalk (continued)

   

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   worth of beans and set them in the dung-hill. His mother asked him for a sweet but he said he bought beans. "And where are they" she asked, "I planted them in the dung-hill" he said.
   Next morning his mother told him to rise and go to school but when he went out the beans had grown up to the sky and he ran up the beanstalk. He walked over the sky till he saw a castle in front of him. He knocked at the door of the castle and an old woman came to it. She had two large teeth. One of these teeth pinned up her night-gown and the other she used for chewing her food. "Dont come in here" she said "For the giant will eat you." "I will hide behind the broom" he said.
   After a while the giant came in shouting "Him Ham I smell the breath of an Irishman. Be him living or be him dead I'll have his liver to my bread tomorrow morning." "It was the crows that flew across the chimney and

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bridie Mc Kenna

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tamlat, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Miss Mary Mc Kenna

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   70

   Address

   Tamlat, Co. Monaghan