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   a hair cut and charge them two shillings and they will soon keep away from you. The barber laughed at the trick for the boy got his shampoo and hair-cut free.

   

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   One day aman was out shooting he wasted all his shot and got nothing as he was coming home he saw a flock of wild geese coming over him. He did not know what to do. At last he thought of a plan. It was a muzzle loader gun he had with him so he stuck the ram rod down in the barrel and put it in a good charge of powder. He took an aim and stuck the ram in one of the wild geese. The wild goose fell down in a river that was near. The ram rod stuck in a salmon that was in the river. The salmon gave a jump and knocked the man and the man fell over on top of a hare so that he had a wild goose, a salmon, and a hare going

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      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
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   Folktales index

   AT1890: The Lucky Shot

   AT1894: The Man Shoots a Ramrod Full of Ducks

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Donnellan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   14

   Address

   Cloonmore, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Edward Weston

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Killavoher, Co. Galway