Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0361
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“There was a king wan time and he had a beautiful daughter.”
(continued from previous page)skin. Jack said he couldn't give it for that. Then a man came up and offered Jack one thousand pounds for the skin. Jack then sold the skin and went home and then he met his two step-brothers, and he put his hand in his pocket and he took out the thousand pounds. They asked him how in the name of wonder did he get all that money. He told them that he sold all the cattle skins and got a hundred pounds each for them. "Begor" says the two brothers "we will go home and we will kill all the cattle we have and sell all the cattle we have and we will make our fortune". So they went home and they killed all their cattle and then they skinned them and went to the fair and started asking one hundred pounds each for the skins. But if they were there until Tibb's Eve they(continues on next page)