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   “There was a man wan time and he was married an' had a big family. ”

   

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   her family had disappeared and he only had his own ould cow.

   

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2. Foxes' Tricks

   

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   There was a fox one time broke into a fowl house and he killed the most of the fowl. Then he tried to get out again, but found that he couldn't. When he couldn't get out he pretended he was dead and when the woman of the house came in the next morning she found the fox dead as she thought. She took him out and threw him on the dung hill and went in to tell one of the men to bury him. The man of the house came out and went to see the fox but found him gone.

   There was a fox

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   Date

   1 Bealtaine 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Folktales index

   AT0033: The Fox Plays Dead and is Thrown out of the Pit and Escapes

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Nioclás Ó Néill