School: Bawnboy
- Location:
- Bawnboy, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Grady
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0963, Page 178
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- (continued from previous page)chace, for he could not keep in view of it so he ran back shouting.
'' That you may break your neck or break in two, and then you'll not hurl so fast, but I'm sure Judy has something to do in it . ''
The cake hurled on and on until it met a barn full of threshers who ran after it with flails but they could not get near enough to hit it so they came back, and the little cake went on saying
'' I ran out from the butter and cold knife and I'll get past you too.
The cake went on and on. It came to a well full of butlers and washers. The girls and women ran after it with their '' shshes '' but could not get a bit of it .
The cake said '' I ran out from hot butter and cold knife, and I'll get past you too ''
Old Judy the witch called a pet fox she had sent to meet the cake at the river and help it across.
The cake went on till it came to the river, and was hurling up and down to see where it would get across.
When up came a fox.
'' What do you want'' ? says the fox. '' I want to get across the river '' '' Well get up on my(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mary Ann Wheeler
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 20
