Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0360
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“There was a king wan time and he had a beautiful daughter.”
(continued from previous page)skin that he had left and he tied it up in a great bundle and he put two or three holes in it. Then he laid it down on the middle of the street and he started shouting and it wasn't long until there was a crowd of people around him. Then Jack hit the bundle a blow of the stick and some of the money came out in the holes. Then he gave it another bang and more money came out. Then one of the men came along and offered Jack ten pounds for the skin. Jack began to laugh and said he could get a hundred pounds for it if he wanted but he said he wasn't going to sell it, for anytime he wanted money all he need do was to give the skin a wallop of a stick and the money would come out. Then this man offered Jack one hundred pounds for the(continues on next page)