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1. A Funny Story (continued)

   

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   But after a couple of hours the genet died and the man of the house said there is no luck in them Black and Tans. So the man started and skinned the animal and he was only a couple of fields from the house going to the town to sell the skin when one of the children came running after him and told him that the genet got up. The man was surprised and turned back again.

   The vit was got and he told the owner of the genet to put on the skin again and knit it on the back with a sally rod. The man done what he was told and they let the genet out in the fields and they didnt do any work with him for a year or so.

   At the end of a year the man looked at the genet and there was as much rods growing on his back as made a pair of creels for him. And in a year after there was a shrubbery on the genet's back.

   

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   1. seánra
      1. ealaín bhéil (~1,483)
         1. scéalta grinn (~6,086)

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   AT1911A: Horse's New Backbone

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Joe Mc Guinn

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   14

   Address

   An Rinn Bhán, Co. Shligigh

   Informant

   Pat Mc Loughlin

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   65

   Address

   An Rinn Bhán, Co. Shligigh