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1. An Old Story - The Babes in the Wood (continued)

   

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   children a boy and a girl. So the King died and the Queen did not want the children. So she paid a large sum of money to the men to take the children away and kill them. But the men were so kind hearted that they could not harm the children. So they took them away to a wood. The two men ran away and left the children in the wood. So the children were tired and hungry and they lay down to sleep and two robins came and carried leaves and covered them up to keep the children warm and in the morning when the children woke up they got a surprise when they were

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Lulu Goldrick

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Virginia, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Lulu Goldrick

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Virginia, Co. Cavan