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   head man had to get him first. When the robbers went home the man told the woman to put the dog out for him and she told the dog to go out and he did and when he went out he went home. The robber came back and put the cobler in a bag and were going to dround him. They came to a church and the robbers tied the cobler out side in a bag. The robbers went into the church and the cobler was saying I won't I won't I won't, and there was a man herding pigs on a road and he came down to the cobler and asked him what he would not do and the cobler told him that he would not marry the Kings daughter and the man that was herding the pigs he got into the bag and the cobler came out and he drover on the pigs and the robbers came out and he the man that was herding the pigs he was in the bag and the cobler was herding the pigs and the robbers took him away in the bag to the sea and the robbers drouned him. When the robbers were coming home they saw the man herding pigs and they thought they drouned him and it was the other fellow. The cobler told the robbers that the farther you would go down in the sea the best pigs they would get and the cobler threw the robbers into the sea and they never came back.

   

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   AT1535: The Rich and the Poor Peasant

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Páid Mac Cionnaith

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   12

   Address

   Drumboat, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Michael Meegan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   Over 60

   Address

   Drumboat, Co. Monaghan