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1. A Local Story (continued)

   

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   guards understood what they were saying they took to their heels, as no doubt they thought the people talking were the Good People who were going to get them and bring them in the fairies. They thought, as everybody will think that they were the "two" whom the "Good People" meant.
   The two which the robbers meant were two apples which they lost near the cemetery gate , while they were escaping in.
   The guards never went to guard the orchard afterwards, as they were afraid of their lives. Nobody ever knew that the "Good People" were the robbers for long enough afterwards.

   

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2. Riddles

   

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   1. Round body, small skull, always eating and never full. Answer = A Chimney 2. As white as milk and milk it isn't, as green as grass and grass it isn't, as red as blood and blood it isn't, as black as ink and ink it isn't. Answer = a Blackberry 3. As I went out the slippery gap, I met a man with a red cap. He was more afraid of the cock and the hen, than the king and all his men.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. riddles (~7,209)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mollie Costello

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   John Galvin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Knock, Co. Roscommon