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   There was a man going through Dublin with a post car and knocked a man down and when he was gone by he said "look" out" and says the man getting "up" why; are you going to come back again.

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   There were two men going to "match make" once and "the intended man" told the other man that whatever he would say he should double it. When they arrived at the bird's "the intended said" I have two cows. The other man said you have and double that "and later he said he had so many acres of land and the other man said he had and "double it". In the end he said he was thirty years of age and the other man said "he was and double it." So as the people say he did the "futher".

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   This is an old story about the good people long ago. There was a girl the name of Miss Mary Reilly Legawee County Cavan. She was sick in bed for a fortnight. There came four good people one night and they bought her away and left an imitation of her in the bed. The people thought it was their own daughter that was in the bed. And these four good people

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Briget Plunkett

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   13

   Address

   Lismacanigan Upper, Co. Cavan