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   “There was a man and his wife living wan time...”

   

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   sat down for a long comfortable smoke. He wasn't long smoking when he heard the pigs and the fowl making all the noise they could, trying as best they could to tell him that it was time they had their breakfast. He went out anyhow and the first thing that he attempted to do was to milk the cow. He was milking away for some time and singing to himself until he was ust done when the cow [at] with her foot foot and spilt the whole bucket of milk right on top of him. He got up and he was as wet as a herring after coming out of the sea, and what was worse then that all the milk was spilt. He "digged" the cow anyhow and he brought the milk to the dairy and put it in one of the crocks. Then he went to the fowlhouse and he let

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   History Edit

   Date

   1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Folktales index

   AT1408: The Man who Does his Wife's Work

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Paddy Roche