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

   

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   and I’ll give you a good days hire” so Tom started off and he minded the jungle animals for a day or so a lion faced him and he fought the lion but the lion devoured him so began says Jim to the mother “Tom is not coming back I must go seek my fortune. Bake me a cake and kill me a cock and I’ll go off to seek my fortune” so began Jim says the mother to him “which would you rather have the half of it with my blessing or the whole of it with my curses. “Oh I’d rather have the whole of it with your curse” he says “Him she be hungry on the way so he shouldn’t off and come to this and he sat down and he ate there and he heard

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   • Richard Bulmer