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   they told him to go home. There lived another man with a hump also and when he heard of this he said to his wife. "Mary they might take off my hump too. " He went anyway and he heard the fairies singing the same song and he said "Yes and Thursday too." The fairies got vexed and they went out and they put the other man's hump on over his own hump. Then they said "now don't spoil our song again.

   

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   Once upon a time there was a man who had a bad eye. He went up to Dublin to get it examined. When he went up the doctor told him that he would have to get his eye out. The doctor took it out and put it into a basin of cold water. He had to go on another call and he told his servant girl not to let the cats go near the eye until he comes back. When he was gone the cat took the eye out of the basin and ran away with it. The girl ran after him to get the eye but he had it eaten. She killed the cat and took out his eye and put it

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mr James Cannon

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballymacrah, Co. Mayo