School: Leithead
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0464, Page 108
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- (continued from previous page)door. The giant said to the boy, what did he want. he said that he wanted his sister. The giant told him to go home he would not go home until he would get his sister. He did not go, so the giant killed him and turned him into a green stone. The next morning the second brother got up. -He said that he would go to the castle for his brother. There was two loafs of bread on the table, the Robbin came in again and hopped again near the small loaf. The boy brought the big with him. Whe he went into the castle the giant was near the door, and he asked him what did he want he said that he wanted his. brother and sister. He told the boy to go home, and he did not. So the giant burned him into another green stone. So the following morning the third brother went to the castle for his two brothers and his sister. There was two loafs of bread on the table, and the Robbin came in again and it hopped at the small loaf(continues on next page)
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- Eileen Sullivan
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