Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 2)

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1. The Meeting House (continued)

   

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   There was a man by the name of Andy Furley who lived in forest where the Meeting House is situated. He was coming out the big gate ran alongside the house wan day with a big load of hay; and himself and the hay horse and car all, were flung across the road. The load of hay all turned over on him. He never shook the Holy Water when he was going in.

   

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2. A Fool

   

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   There was a fool there wan time. Himself and his mother lived together in a little cabin. Wan day the mother sent Jack (Jack was the fool's name) to the butcher's shop. "Hurry on now," says she "and bring back hearts livers and lights"
   While Jack was going along the road he had to keep on saying "hearts livers and lights," "hearts livers and lights," else he'd forget what he wanted when he'd come to the butchers' shop.
   Jack wasn't gone very far when the first wan he met on the road was a drunken man.
   "Hearts livers and lights" says Jack
   The man thought Jack was codding him. "That they

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   Item type

   Lore

   Folktales index

   AT1696: “What Should I have Said (Done)?”

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Mrs Brian Murphy