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   usual home returning time the image was carried to a bridge in the neighbourhood called the Alt Bridge and placed on a stump of a previously cut tree. A lighted candle was placed behind it giving it a hideous appearence. When the man approach the bridge he beheld the "ghost." He did not give it a second look but turned back and ran home as fast as his legs could carry him, not to pass that way for many weeks after.

   

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2. A Funny Story

   

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   Once upon a time in the same house there lived three brothers who slept in the same bed. The eldest boy was the last to go to bed and he had hacked feet and wore socks on him in bed. The second boy felt the hairy feet and thought it was a ghost. The youngest felt the same and thought the

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. jokes (~6,086)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nellie Gallagher

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Glenkeel, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   John Gordon

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lugasnaghta, Co. Leitrim