Volume: CBÉ 0189

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1. Jimmy the Ripper

   

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   There was an old man living near this place won time named Jimmy the Ripper. He was small, with a great hump on him.
   Jimmy died. At that time they used have pipes and tobbacco and snuff at the wakes, but that custom had been done away with for years.
   When Jimmy died they had to put a weight on his chest and tie him down with a rope, on account of the hump, in order to keep him straight.
   Some time during the night some of the prime boys cut the rope, and the minute they did up springs Jimmy in the bed. What was in the house ran with their lives out of the house.

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • James Carroll