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   “There was a farmer one time lived in the parish of Glynn, by the name of Joe Brady.”

   

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   couple of nights afterwards Joe Brady was awakened by loud noise as of a hammer driving nails. He got up and he went outside. The noise was coming from the broken roof. He looked inside and outside the house, but could see nothing. Then a great fear came over him, for he remembered what Mickey Murphy had said about building the house dead or alive. So he went back to bed. He could hear the sound of hammers and chisels and saws and all kinds of carpenter's tools working outside.

   When Joe Brady got up in the morning he found the out-house fixed up, two new rafters put up, and new iron on the end of the house. Then Joe Brady knew that poor Mickey had to go through with what he said.

   Thomas Butler, Lambstown

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

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   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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