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   played away. One thing he did notice however, was that the divil could play cards. They plated for hours and in the wind-up Martain Kenny got the better of the divil. He took whatever money the divil had off him. The divil had to admit that Martain was a better card-player than himself. So Martain went home quite contented with himself. When he wold his experience to the neighbors, they wondered greatly for some of the old people had heard of the divil playing cards with people and taking all the money they had, but in Martain Kenny's case it was quite the opposite. He was known for years afterwards as "the man who played cards with the divil."

   

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script