Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0334
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“There was a man and his wife and they lived in a a very small house...”
(continued from previous page)will have a calf, and when that calf grows up it will be another cow and then we will have two cows and them two cows will have two more calves and so on until we have a whole field full of cattle and when we will have about one hundred cattle we will sell them and get about one thousand pounds for them". The husband said that would do finely. So they waited until the hen had laid the twenty eggs, and then she laid no more. This night the man and his wife were sitting over their fire and the basket with eggs in it were by their side and they ready to put under the hen. They were talking about the kind of a house that they would buy with the thousand pounds. The man said that they would allow nobody in only the well off people and the gentry and all the nobility of the country. He said that they(continues on next page)