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1. Marrying the Nine Daughters (continued)

   

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   And the cobbles replies:
   "A fig for your daughters
   and another for yourself
   and for four farthings more, I'd get a far better wife."
   Then the nine daughters rose up and beat out the cobbler with their sticks and belts.
   Next the tailor came in, and the same verses were sang and the same thing happened. This continued until all got tired or till the farmer came in and got the nine daughters.

   from Francis Keegan farmer
   aged 50 who saw it played.

   

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2. Wakes Long Ago

   

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   There was a wake long ago in Jooma. The man that was dead was a cripple and the men that laid him out let him stiffen. They the tried to straighten him so that he'd be got into the coffin. They strapped him on the kitchen table with ropes, but in the middle of the night when they were all taking tea, the ropes broke or some playboy cut them and the corpse leaped off the table into the middle of the people who were taking tea. Several women fainted with the fright. from Frank Quinn. Drumloughan.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
            1. games
               1. wake games (~170)
         2. rites of passage (~573)
            1. death (~1,076)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Frank Quinn

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim