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   “There were two old men wan time and they were and they lived...”

   

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   tired. The churn was so full that
   the milk couldn't turn around in it
   at all and they were doing no good.
   They churned away in their turns
   until their sister came home. You
   can partly guess what happened when she came in.

   

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   “There was a man and his wife lived in a small house.”

   

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   There was a man and his wife lived in a small house. They were very poor and were hardly able to live at all. One day the man bought a stocking and he told his wife to send up all the money she had or could spare, so that they would have it for the winter. The wife said that she would , and started to collect the money , and collected away and had a good little penny he collected by the winter time. One day a travelling man came to the door and he asked for money , and she asked

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   Date

   20 Iúil 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Folktales index

   AT1386: Meat as Food for Cabbage

   AT1541: For the Long Winter

   AT1653: The Robbers under the Tree

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Mrs Kennedy