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Published: 09.04.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'The ghost in the graveyard.', 1.
  • Essays 'The ghost in the graveyard.', 2.
  • Essays 'The ghost in the graveyard.', 3.
Extract

Once upon a time a very beautiful girl lived, with her old granny, in a tiny cottage beside Killeavy Old Church.
In the past people had different ideas of beauty from those we have today. A girl was thought to be a beauty if she had a big, broad back - fit to pull a plough, or to carry two buckets of water.
Well this girl had a big broad back and aroused passion in the breasts of all the boys in the neighbourhood, one of whom described her as, "Tall enough to eat hay out of a loft, and strong enough to pull turf like a donkey", which was high praise indeed.
The boys chased the girl in vain…

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