Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0356
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“There was a king wan time and he had a beautiful daughter.”
(continued from previous page)in the least. They asked him how he was and why was it that he was in such good form. "Well" says Jack "I'll tell yous now why I'm in such good form. Last night my mother died in the bed, she was pierced the body with a sword or something of that kind. I took her up on my back and I went into the town and I called for the bodysnatchers saying that my mother died of a new disease. All the bodysnatchers came rushing out and offered me plenty of money for her and here is what I have got", so he showed them the two hundred pounds that he got from the bodysnatchers. "Begor" says the two brothers we will go home and we'll kill our ould aunt. So they went home and they each got a mallet and they got at each side of there aunt and they battered in her skull.(continues on next page)