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School: Kinnegad (B.) (roll number 14362)

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Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
T. Mac Cárthaigh
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    the manger. When they saw all the whiskey they drank it and they all fell asleep. Ned got the two horses and brought them up to the king "To night you will have to take the sheet from under my wife and myself and do not waken us." "All right" said Ned. That night he went to the graveyard and got a dead body out of a grave. Then he went to the kings house and put the body down the chimney. The king fired a shot at it. He thought he shot Ned, he rolled the body up in a sack Ned went into the room where the kings wife was. Did you burry him said the queen I did said the boy. The
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    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT1525: The Master Thief
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Harry Smith
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Moydrum or Bogstown, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Paddy Mooney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Park, Co. Meath