School: Rathmeage, Hackettstown

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   “One time a man and a woman lived together they had one child.”

   

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   out the door, the Child said "Now Daddy be sure and take a good fack. This father said "How will I know a good fack. The child said the one he will be gingling on the anvil and throwing it out of his hand + knows it wont break. When he went to the forge the smith was making a fack and when he was done he threw it out of his hand any where. The man said "I will take that fack it is a good one. "The best on I have ever made" said the man who told it to you "I have a child at home. He told me the one you would be gingling on the anvil to take that one. "Is there a rath near your house. "There is "Well when you go home go quickly to the door + say the rath's a fire and see will take any thing of him. When he went home he did so and the child said "Let me away my bellows will be burned. When they looked behind them they had their own child in the cradle.

   

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   “One time a girl wanted a pig to cross the ditch...”

   

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   One time a girl wanted a pig to cross the ditch to get her a bunch of black berries but the pig said "no" The girl said dog will you bite pig pig would not cross the ditch to get me a bunch of black berries. The dog said "no." The girls said to a stick stick will you beat dog dog would not bite pig pig would not cross the ditch to get me a bunch of black berries. The stick

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   AT2030: The Old Woman and her Pig

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Brigidh Ní Stanlaig

   Gender

   Female