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   “There lived two men in the one town land long ago, and the two had the same names and to distinguish them the people called one of them Great Claus and the other man Little Claus.”

   

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   in and put the old old man over the bridge. When he was coming home he saw Little Claus herding the animals and then came to him and asked how he got there. Little Claus said to him "Yonder is a lovely place and the servants gave me all these cattle". "Do you think" says Great Claus "If I went there would I get all those things like you". "of course you would" says Little Claus. He went to a bridge and Little Claus threw him over and he was never heard of since.

   

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   “There was a man and his son living together long ago. The little boy had a goat and it ate all the plants that the father had planted and destroyed everything about the house.”

   

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   There was a man and his son living together long ago. The little boy had a goat and it ate all the plants that the father had planted and destroyed everything about the house. At last the father commanded the boy to leave the goat on the hill. The boy did so and at the end of the week he got uneasy about the goat. He took a little piece of rope in his pocket and went to the hill. By this time the goat became very wild and the boy had to run very fast to catch her, when he

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Frances Mac Nulty

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Knocknafaugher, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Patrick Mc Lean

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   50

   Address

   Knocknafaugher, Co. Donegal