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   the gate inside, and when the girls came to draw water one girl told the woman to stand back and gave her a shove and at that moment the woman fell into the well. Then the girl ran into Dan's house, and told him that she shoved his mother into the well. Then Dan cried out that she would have to give him a thousand pounds, and the girl ran home, and brought the thousand pounds back to Dan. In this town there also lived two Hugberts, and when they heard about the money that Dan got they resolved to kill him. One day the Hugberts caught Dan and put him into a sack, and were going to drown him, but on their way they forgot the shades, and left Dan on the side of the road. That same venting a man was coming from a fair and he asked who was in the sack and he said Dan O Neill. Then man also asked him where he was going and Dan cried out that he was going to heaven in a sack. The old man said that he would go instead. Then the old man loosed the sack, and Dan came out. Then the old man went into the sack, and Dan tied it, and took another road. At long last the two Hughberts came and drowned the man. After twenty years Dan returned to the same town, and the Hughberts said are you the man we drowned twenty years ago, and he said that it was. Dan told them that he was in a place.

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   AT1535: The Rich and the Poor Peasant

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mr Luke Tully

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kilnalag, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mrs Mary Tully

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   60

   Address

   Kilnalag, Co. Galway