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1. The Holy Family (continued)

   

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   let play in the game.
   Another day while his foster-father was hammering nails into the wood. He asked did that not pain the wood. "No" says the foster father "How could it?" Isn't it used to make tables and chairs and such-like. "O Father" says he "I would like to be put to some use like that." That pierced the hearts of Mary and of Joseph.

   

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2. The Holy Family

   

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   It is supposed there was never a family as poor or as powerful as they. It is supposed that the things St. Joseph made never rotted or broke. The old people say that St. Joseph's donkey

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
         1. religious tales (~1,085)
            1. the Holy Family (~429)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   James Farmer

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   13

   Address

   Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Ellen Beagon

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   73

   Address

   Tonagh, Co. Monaghan