School: Órán Mór (B) (roll number 4506)

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   “Long ago there lived two men from the county Mayo.”

   

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   officers at the gate. Reilly and his wife brought the tablecloth and all that Farrell processed. So Reilly was as rich as the King himself. Then he spread out the tablecloth and ordered tea and if they did not live happy that we may.

   

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   “Once upon a time there was a man living in a town and very often an old piper came and stayed with him for a night.”

   

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   Once upon a time there was a man living in a town and very often an old piper came and stayed with him for a night. One day a lot of Jobbers came because there was to be a fair in town next day. On that night the old piper came to him looking for lodgings and the man said that he had no place for him and the piper said any place at all will do me. Then the man told him to go out into the barn and he went out. There was a cow in it and he slept in the manger. Next morning the old piper got up at six o clock and he dressed himself in his new clothes and he then put the legs of the old trousers out in boots and he went to the fair. When the man got up he went out to the barn and when he saw the trousers he thought the cow had eaten the man

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máirtín Mac Giollarnáth

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Oranmore, Co. Galway