School: Hackettstown (St Joseph's)
- Location:
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: M. Ní Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0909, Page 416
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- Some years ago before reaping machines were plentiful the harvest was taken up by reaping hooks. On one occasion a man had four or five men employed reaping and late in the evening when the reapers and binders had left the field the farmer was gathering up the scattering straws with a rake, when a little man dress in red with a staff in his hand appeared on the ditch and said to the farmer, "Leave the straws alone you've got your share", so the farmer said "I'm going to get the rest". "Well" said the little man, "Others want it as well as you, you will never get as much again"> After three or four years the man was broke. This happened in the neighbourhood of Hacketstown.
- Collector
- Philomena Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Peter Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Hacketstown, Co. Carlow
