School: Corboy, Meathús Truim (roll number 11421)
- Location:
- Corboy, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Susan Stephens
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0760, Page 011
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- Long ago a girl's mother died when she was about twenty-six. One day her father went out and while he was away a knock came to the door, the girl opened the door and a man asked her could he leave in a bag which he said contained a parcel the girl said he could so he left the bag in a corner.
When the girl was a while in the house the bag began tearing she looked at it and a knife was cutting it, she ran and got a revolver and fired a shot at the bag.
Just then her father came in, she told him about it he went for the police when they came they opened the bag and found a small man inside with a whistle tied on a string, the police blew the whistle and a number of men ran into the house.
Of it had been the small man who blew the whistle, they would have killed the girl.
- Collector
- Georgena Denniston
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Drumnacross, Co. Longford
