Volume: CBÉ 0106
- Date
- 1935
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Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0106, Page 100
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“There was a woman one time lived in Shan about eight miles from the town of Wexford.”
(continued from previous page)after a long time he came to the giant's mansion. When the giant saw him coming up the avenue, he orderedhis men to fire at him, so five or six of the men loaded their blunderbuses and fired at him. When Jack felt the bullets hitting him he wondered, so he put his hands in front of him and caught them. "Begor" says he to himself "them are the quarest hailstones I ever seen, I must bring them home and show them to the king," Jack went to the mansion and one of the giants came out and says he
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I smell the blood of an Irishman I'll have his bones for my stepping stones I'll have his guts for my garters, and his blood for my morning dram" When he was done talking Jack(continues on next page)