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he do for him ? " Well," said he, " I saw my sister that 's been dead three years at that house, and I would like her back."
" It 's a hard thing," said the man, " but I'll try and do it for you." So he went away, and in a little time returned with the girl and disappeared. There was much joy on the two of them, and they set off for home.
Early in the morning the old father was wakened by a lowing without, and he saw some cattle among his oats. So he out and hunted them, and back to bed, and he says to the wife : "There's Jack come in, and he's brought a wife with him at last."
They had great astonishment when the lad brought down his sister, and she wasn't a day older than when she died. She went out and called the cows in — for they had been sent with her — and there they are now.
The two following tales are told as facts regarding persons living within memory : —
JUDGE AND THE BUCKIES.
Judge was a young fellow who lived with a married brother. There was a fort beside the house, and of an evening as he passed this on his way home, a " buckle" used to jump on his back and take a ride until he came to the stream that ran by the door, when the little creature would fall off One night Judge turned his coat and hat, to see what would happen, and, as he expected, ne'er a " buckie" came near him. He thought, however, that it would get him laughed at if he entered the house that way, so he turned his coat back again, when " plop" came one on his back !
They never did him any harm, though ; indeed, he had one good friend among them. One day he was taking a cow to the fair at Boyle, and, leaving the beast in the byre, he went to bed. In the middle of the night he was awakened by a voice calling his name three times. Going down, he found his cow nearly strangled, and was just in
