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1. Jack Tansey (continued)

   

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   that Paddy and herself were married. They put down the kettle made the tea and lived happily ever afterwards until Jack died again.
   Collected by- Kathleen Cryan
   Ougham
   Bunninadden P.O
   heard from her mother Bea McCoy

   

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2. The Boys and the Nuts

   

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   Two boys named Jimmy Ego and Paddy Burke went into a garden one evening for nuts. This garden belonged to James Beirne of Kilshalvey. It was dark when they were returning home and they wished to divide the nuts. So they went into Kilshalvey graveyard to divide them. On their way in they lost two at the gate. One of them stepped back to pick them up and the other boy told him not to mind them until they were coming out. They sat down beside the wall and began dividing

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Florrie Benson

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Mountirvine, Co. Sligo

   Informant

   James Benson

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Mountirvine, Co. Sligo