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    I have heard another story of a man who had three sons.

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    set out again for the road and travelled on again until he came to a town and started to play there. He made plenty of money in that place too. He kept going around from fair to fair with his dog for six months and at the end of that time he had about one hundred pounds saved and had a right time of it as well. Then wan day he got an offer of five hundred pounds for the dog from a man who was going abroad. He sold the dog as he thought that the offer was a good one. Soon after this, he married a well-off girl and they lived happily ever afterwards.
    The two brothers got up the next morning and went to go look for the dog, but they couldn’t
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    9 August 1936
    Item type
    Lore
    Language
    English
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script
    Informant