Volume: CBÉ 0265

Date
1935
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0265, Page 0181

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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0265, Page 0181

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    and asked his wife "now" says he "when he comes in let on you love him and ask him where does his life live and he'll say there in the window and you get a towel and soap" says he "and go to wash the window." so Jack told her all this of course and she was highly delighted to see Jack there and when the lad came to the door she hugged him and kissed him "I am getting fond of you" says she "Where does your life lie," "over there in the window" he says so she ran for towel and soap and washed every bit of it "I see" he says "that you are fond of me" "I never can be killed" he says because my life lies he says in a lion. In that lion" he says "there is a hare in that hare there is a hawk and in that hawk" he says "there is an egg
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    Item type
    Lore
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Roman script