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   to dry land. The man did the same again as before. The dog jumped into the pond a second time. Instead of bringing it to the man he ran home with it and laid it before the kitchen fire. After that the kitten was allowed to live. The dog became its best friend.

   

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   It is many a cripple that used to be going about asking alms. The cripple used to be sitting on a barrow and the people of this house had to carry him to the next house and so on. One day there were two boys carrying the cripple through a field. There were cattle and a cross bull in the field. The bull ran towards them. The boys left the barrow on the ground and they ran for their lives. But which of them were at the

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. jokes (~6,086)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Una Conneely

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Shannagh More, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs Maria Conneely

   Relation

   Unknown

   Gender

   Female