The book In Chimney Corners Merry Tales of Irish Folklore was written by author Seumas Macmanus Here you can read free online of In Chimney Corners Merry Tales of Irish Folklore book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is In Chimney Corners Merry Tales of Irish Folklore a good or bad book?
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And when he comes in the old woman that was in the house flew at him and kissed him and welcomed him back with a hundred welcomes ten times over, for he was so like his brother she was sure it was him was in it. Then she told him that they were all waiting for him anxiously at the castle, expecting him back every day, and that he should lose no time in going to them, for that the bride in particular was down-hearted en- tirely since he had went away, thinking that she'd never see him no more. S...o off he starts at once for the castle to find it all out, and it's there was the welcome and the rejoicing, and the pretty king's daughter covered him all over with kisses, and there was a great spread, and The Old Hag of the Forest 139 all the gentry and nobility were asked in again, but that night again, what would you have of it, but the hare comes a second time, and spoiled the cook's best dish, and drove the cook into a frightful rage, and "It's a nice how do ye do, indeed, " says the cook, says she, "that with a hairo in the house that slew three giants a hare would be allowed to come in and spoil my very choicest dish, and then go off with itself scot free, " says she.
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