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    There was a man named Martin Hughes and he used be always raving about gold...

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    and sat down. Then there were only the two men working. Martain Hughes and Mogue Walsh. Mogue soon began to complain of an awful pain in his head and said that he would also have to leave it so as he didn't like the work at all, as he was fully convinced that there was something wrong, when all of them were beginning to complain. They asked Martain did he feel alright and he said that there was nothing wrong with him and also said that he didn't believe that there was anything wrong with any of them. Not long after this one of the men when they saw that what they were after doing wasn't after taking the slightest effect on Martain went off and got a white sheet which he brought with him and wound around him and came back and walked up close to where Martain was
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    14 July 1936
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant