School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)

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   “There was once a poor man and his wife living in a little house near a landlord.”

   

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   were putting money aside every day. One day the man met the landlord and the landlord asked the man would he lend the money and he did but the landlord never paid it back again. The woman went to court with the landlord but it was no use for her because they had no witness. One day a man came to the old couples house and they told him the story. He said he would get the money back again for them. So he got a deer's skin and went to the landlord's house. He asked for lodgings and he got them. In the middle of the night he put on the deer's skin on himself. When the housekeeper came to call him she thought

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Peg Barry

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Derry, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Jerry Breen

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballybunnion, Co. Kerry