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   7 Funny Stories Told Locally Some time ago a man named Henry Powell lived in Clonsast. At a fair in Portarlington he bought a jennet for a woman. Some time after, he went to another fair in Portarlington to sell Fan, the jennet. He met the woman from whom he had bought the jennet, and she began petting it and saying "Poor Fan, poor Fan." Henry asked her if she would like to own Fan again - his way of proposing to her. She answered "Yes", so Henry married her.

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   A schoolmaster, who taught in Clonbullogue, had one of the old fashioned bicycles, with a big wheel & a little one.
   One Winter's evening he was going home from school, having spent some time in a public house. He was so unsteady that he fell off his bicycle. When he got up, he ran in to a cottage nearby. When the woman saw him bleeding she asked him what happened, and he told her he had lost his equilibrium.
   The woman shouted to her husband "Quick, quick, get a lantern

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