Earl Crawford

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Earl Crawford is Child ballad 229.

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Earl Crawford marries the youngest of seven sisters. She has a son. One day, she complains that he makes too much of the boy. Angry, he sends her back to her father. Her father goes back to appeal to him, and he refuses to take her back. She receives the news and dies. He receives that news and dies.

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