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1. Jack and the Brown Horse (continued)

   

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   for a certain book that was in the drawing-room. The soldiers then let him in, for they thought he had got permission or he wouldn't have got through the soldiers at the palace gates. So Jack went inside and searched all around the drawing room, and at last he found the golden urn. He hid it under his coat and went out and got up on the brown horse, and of course he had to go out over the wall again, for fear of the soldiers at the gate. He got over the wall allright, it wasn't so hard to get over it from the inside, and it wasn't long until he was well on his way home. The brown horse being the best traveller in the land wasn't long bringing Jack home, so he arrived at the king's palace sooner then he expected and

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   History Edit

   Date

   1935

   Item type

   Lore

   Folktales index—relevant types

   AT0531: Ferdinand the True and Ferdinand the False

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Tomás de Buitléir