Volume: CBÉ 0265

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   “Once upon a time there was a man and woman lived in a bog...”

   

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   Bulmer. Heard from Goleman
   Once upon a time there was a man and woman lived in a bog and they had 3 sons and the eldest son was named Tom and 2nd Jim and 3rd was Riche so Tom says to the mother one day "We have to work and it is a terrible thing to be idle here in the old bog so take me and catch and kill me a cock and I'll go off it's peck my fortune so she hits the cock and she baked the cock and "how sleep she" which would you rather have the _____of this ____ my blessing or the ____ of its ___ my ears" "At ____ he says" It is a long road maybe I'll have to travel and give me the whole of it" so he traveled along for miles and miles until he came to great big wood.

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   • Richard Bulmer