School: Corr Odhar (roll number 14701)
- Location:
- Corrower, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Aibhistín Ó Coinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0126, Page 383
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- (continued from previous page)appear weary, and you will be made welcome to such entertainment as we can afford and such as we have for ourselves”.“Thank you kindly”, said the princess. “I am glad of the offer”. And so she came along with the little cobbler and he told his wife what had happened and as soon as she saw the face of the Princess she recognised it at once as the same face she had seen in the well. So they prepared some food for the stranger, which she needed badly having been so long without food, and she enjoyed it very much. When she had finished her meal the cobbler informed her of the royal wedding which was to take place that night. “Tonight”, he said “the feasting starts, and so you are lucky; you may come with me and my wife as the King has issued an order that every person from the age of one year to the age of one hundred must be present at the royal wedding.”“That is very good indeed”, said the Princess, “but I am a stranger and will not go”.The cobbler tried to persuade her to come with them but in vain, and so he(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
