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1. The Blue Coated Man (continued)

   

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   of the house. Jack took up the ball and went in and told him his story. The man had charge of all the wild animals, and he went out and sounded his bugle and all the wild animals came to him. He questioned them all and none of them knew where gabhar na gorna’s house was.
   He set the ball rolling again and Jack followed it. It stopped at the gate of the other brother's house. Jack took up the ball and went in to the house and he told him his story. This brother did not know where the house was.
   He called Jack out on the yard and he sounded his bugle and all the fishes of the sea came and put their heads over the water. He questioned them all and none of them knew where the house was.
   He put the ball rolling again, and it stopped at the gate of the other brother's house. Jack went in and told him his story. This brother went out again and sounded his bugle, and all the wild birds of the air came except the eagle.
   He sounded his bugle and all the eagles came, and one big eagle darkened the sun in his coming. He questioned them all and none of them knew where the house was until he came to the big eagle.
   He asked the eagle where was he the first time he sounded his bugle, and the eagle said he was in Gabhar na Gorna’s haggert covering his eggs. He asked him (him) where he was the second time, and he said he was passing

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   AT0313: The Girl as Helper

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seán Ó Gráda

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Bauraneag, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Nóra Sheehy

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   77

   Address

   Bauraneag, Co. Limerick