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    emotion "ye're after having young ones".
    Replacing the soil carefully he went off, the gentleman needless to say, thoroughly enjoying the proceedings.
    To continue the joke further, the latter now took away the sixpence replacing it with a sovereign.
    The fool soon returned and kneeling down addressed the coins with the same motherly solicitude as before,"Are ye nice and warm?".
    Seeing the gold coin, he jumped up in dismay, quickly pocketed the three coins with a pathetic observation, "Oh, ye are getting yellow "jaunders"".
    (Yellow "jaunders" is the local nomenclature for the disease known as jaundice).
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Callaghan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Agharinagh, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Patrick Hanlon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    80
    Address
    Dripsey Model Village, Co. Cork