Volume: CBÉ 0190

Date
1936
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 092

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 092

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    a grand room to sleep in. When he went to bed he couldn't sleep for he heard the giant walking around downstairs. So he got out of the bed and put a ? of wood in the bed. Then he got in under it. It wasn't long until he heard the giant ? along and Jack heard him going over in the direction of the bed. He had a great big club in his hand, and he started wholloping the ? of timber in the bed with the club and saying the following rhyme.
    "Though with me you sleep this night. You shall not see the mornings' light. For my club shall dash your brains out quite."
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Item type
    Lore
    Folktales index
    AT0328: The Boy Steals the Giant's Treasure
    AT1088: Eating Contest
    AT1115: Attempted Murder with Hatchet
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant