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1. Farmer and Three Sons (continued)

   

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   & sent him home so Tom said to the mother "Kill me the cock & bake me the cake & I'll go seek my fortune so she asked him which would he have the half of it with her blessing or the whole of it with her curse so he said he would have the whole of it with her curse so she got out on top of the ditch & he going away "My curse go high & my curse go low & my curse go with you wherever you go" & he went until he came to this little bridge so he met the same fate as Bill so Jack, Jack was the youngest says "Bake me the cake Mother & kill me the cock & I'll go seek my fortune" & Jack took half the cock & half the cake with her blessing & the mother got out on top of the ditch & she says "My blessing go

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   • James Coleman