Volume: CBÉ 0190
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 162
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“There was a man one time and he got married but he had no family. ”
(continued from previous page)rise a disturbance between those two people. She said she would do her best. So the next day she went to the old couples home and she was talking to the old woman for some time and at last says she "I know how you could get a child". "How?" said the old woman. "Tonight when your husband is in bed asleep you get his razor and cut a hair out of his whisker and after some time God will send you a child", says the bare footed girl. The old woman was delighted and that night when her husband went to bed she got down the razor and went into the room. She saw him fast asleep so she opened the razor and was just in the act of cutting the hair out of the whisker when(continues on next page)