Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0357
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“There was a king wan time and he had a beautiful daughter.”
(continued from previous page)Then they took her up on their backs and they went into the town and they started calling all the body snatchers to come out and have a look at her. When they came they told them that their mother died of some kind of a disease that none of the doctors knew anything at all about. The body snatchers looked at her and they began to laugh saying that a person having his or her skull battered in was no new disease, and they told the two brothers to bring home the woman and bury her before the policemen would catch hold of them, and get them hanged for killing their mother. The two brothers then looked at each other and they were fairly well ashamed of themselves when they saw the brutal way in which they killed their mother. Then all the small(continues on next page)