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1. Old Folk-Tales - The Weaver of Dunleek

   

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   "Wan" time there lived a weaver at Dunleek in a dilapidated house. His mother called him in one morning to his breakfast and the skillet of stirabout was covered over with flies. He lifted his hand and hit them down, killing four score and ten with one blow. He says to himself "I'll never weave anymore." He went and took the lid of the skillet for a breastplate and then wrote on it "I am the best of all men. I can kill four score and ten with one blow." He put the skillet on his head for a hat and the pothooks under his chin, and out he starts for the road. He travelled on until he came to a gentleman's place and in the vicinity there lived a dragon which was taking all about the gentleman's place, and he profited a peck of "gould" to the weaver if he would kill the dragon. The dragon and him fought until the dragon threw him up on the tree and the branches were that thick that the dragon couldi'nt get up after him, and the dragon would say "You may as well come down for I'll stay here till morning until I eat you," I'll not go down I'll not go down" shouted the weaver. The dragon

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