Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)

Date
1938
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    "Oh" says Jack, "that's a lot but what matter". So after a few more instructions Jack loosed the cows and drove them off to the farm. The cows started to graze and Jack started to look around him, when he noticed a big castle three or four fields away from him. "Begor", says Jack, "that must be the giants' castle the master was telling me about. I must go + have a peep at it". He noticed the grand green grass in the lawn.
    "The grass here is twice as good as in my master's fields" says Jack. "I think I will knock down the wall and let the cows in on it"; which he did, by making a big gap in the wall. When he had that done he drove the cows into it.
    "Now me poor craytors yez won't be hungry here", says Jack.
    Jack started walking around the place then; and as he was waking about he noticed something shining in the grass. So he picked it up and what
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Date
    December 1938
    Item type
    Lore
    Folktales index
    AT0300: The Dragon‑Slayer
    AT0302: The Ogre's (Devil's) Heart in the Egg
    AT0530: The Princess on the Glass Mountain
    AT0545: The Cat as Helper
    AT0700: Tom Thumb
    Language
    Irish
    Writing mode
    Handwritten
    Writing script
    Gaelic script
    Informant