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1. The White Trout (continued)

   

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   for saying it, swore he'd catch the trout and eat it for his dinner, the blackguard. Well, what would you think of the villiany of the soldiers? Sure enough he caught the trout and away with him home and the purty little thing on the frying pan. The trout squealed as well as any Christian crathur and my dear you'd think the soldiers would split his sides laughing, for he was a hardened villian, and when he thought it was cooked on one side, he turns it over to fry the other, what would you think, but the divil a taste of a burn was on it at all, at all, and sure the soldier thought it was a quare trout that could not be cooked. But says he "I'll give it another turn by by" little thinking what was in store for him,

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Greally

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Mount Nugent, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Joseph Lynch

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Farren Connell, Co. Cavan