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1. A Story About a Ghost (continued)

   

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   she was coming home from town. I suppose she took a small drop too much. She had to pass a graveyard. But when she came to it, she turned [into] it. She went down through the grave-yard, and she met a big tomb-stone. Down she sat under the tomb-stone. She stayed there for a long time. During the time she was there. and in the middle of the night two or three men came to open a grave to take gold rings off the finger of a corpse that had been buried there. One of the men took out a candle from his pocket, and he said "who will hold this candle". The woman stretched out her long arm from under the tomb-stone and said "I will". The unfortunate men took to their heels. One of the men's boot[s] caught in a briar, and with a great force he broke the lace leaving his boot behind him. One of the other men lost a hat. But they did not venture back to look for neither the boot nor hat.

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   AT0990: The Seemingly Dead Revives

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Lily Boylan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   12

   Address

   Saint O'Hara's Hill, Co. Offaly

   Informant

   Joseph Boylan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   40

   Address

   Saint O'Hara's Hill, Co. Offaly