School: Harristown, Piltown (roll number 13449)
- Location:
- Harristown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: G. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0842, Page 124
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- (continued from previous page)he said "pay me for my story." The boy said he could not. So he turned boy into a black-bird for seven years more. He told him to meet him in the same place on that day seven years.At the end of the seventh year the bird was standing on the top of a chimney one snowy day and he heard two old women talking. One was telling the other a story. The bird listened with all attention till the story was finished. Then the woman said to the other, "pay me for my story. And the answer she got was. "May God be your dwelling for your story." So when the seven years were up the boy met the old man in the same spot. He said to the boy, "now pay me for my story." The boy said to the old(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Andrew Driscoll
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Harristown, Co. Kilkenny
