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   “In a neighbourhood long ago, there were three women named Mary married to three Johns.”

   

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   wake that night and went home in the morning. Her husband was in bed. "Well John", she said to him "is it there you are. Why didn't you get up and go in the funeral like all your neighbours?" "I didn't hear of any funeral or who is dead?" he said. She told him it was his friend John, and that the funeral had first gone off. "Now I'll be late" he said, "and I want to see him before he is buried. Let me get my clothes". "What clothes? Don't wait to put them on, or you will be late. Run off as you are.". Off he ran after the funeral. When the people saw the naked man coming after them they ran off in all directions. The men carrying the coffin left it down on the road and cut away as fast as life would let them. When the naked man got to the coffin he took off the lid and let out the man who wasn't dead. They walked home together and lived happy afterwards. Which of the women do you think got the parcel?

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   AT1406: The Merry Wives Wager

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seán Ó Gríofa

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Glenmore, Co. Clare

   Informant

   Seosamh Ó Gríofa

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Glenmore, Co. Clare