School: Corr Odhar (roll number 14701)
- Location:
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Aibhistín Ó Coinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0126, Page 381
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- (continued from previous page)It was a fine summers day and everybody was preparing for the royal wedding that night, and among them a cobbler and his wife a very peculiar looking woman. She said to her husband: “I will run off and fetch some spring water so that we shall be ready in time to go to the royal wedding.”“Just so”, said the cobbler, “away you go”.And so she did, and what do you think happened? Well, just as she was bent over, the well taking her can of water the shadow of the Princess was reflected down in the clear spring, which made the cobbler’s wife gaze in surprise thinking it was her own image, and she said to herself: “What a fool I was to marry an ugly little cobbler” I am the most beautiful woman in the world!”She started off home without bringing one drop of water and began to scold her husband. “What a nerve you had” she said, “to have married such a fine woman as I. I have never seen my picture until today and I shall be no longer your wife. I am handsome enough to be a queen instead of being married to an ugly little cobbler like you”,The poor cobbler thought she was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Austin F. Cunney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- William Loftus
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Graffy, Co. Mayo
