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1. There was another man going out to shoot wan morning at four o clock... (continued)

   

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   across the fields and the fairies went ahead and he saw no more of them or got no further account of them.

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2. Wake Games and Tricks

   

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   There was a wake held in a barn in Baldwinstown a long time ago. A crowd of fellows came in to it about eleven or twelve o clock and they took the corpse out of the bed and walked him up the floor. Some of the boys behind were trying to trip him and more of them were givin him boxes in the mouth.

   There was a woman walking in the same place wan time and she had a hump on her back. She couldn't be got to lie down in the bed on account of the hump so they tied her down to the floor with

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