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   “There was a man and his wife living in the south of the Co. Wexford...”

   

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   but would say nothing at all about it. So they a frightful row and there was no peace in the house for three weeks or a month. Then it happened that the story came it was a little boy that was up in the tree and was doing the cuckooing. So the man and his wife got ashamed of themselves and gave up the fighting and lived decent ever afterwards.

   

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   History Edit

   Date

   3 Iúil 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Folktales index—relevant types

   AT1029: The Woman as Cuckoo in the Tree

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

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