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1. Mermaid Takes Son (continued)

   

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   married to her - to ask her father so the girl asked her father would he let her get married to the hawk. "How the divil" says the father "could the hawk marry you" so he turned into a fine young man so the father consented to give the daughter to the hawk so they got married and they lived there for seven or eight years and then he returned home - him and his wife. This day the father brought him out to hunt and there was a hare started up so he says I wish I was a hound and he started after the hare and the hare brought him to the sea and when he went down to the sea the mermaid leaped up and grabbed him and brought him into the sea so begor the wife got uneasy about him

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   • James Coleman