School: Bawnboy
- Location:
- Bawnboy, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Grady
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0963, Page 264
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- (continued from previous page)had happened.
He got up to go but the giant saw him and caught him and brought him back.
He asked him what was he doing there and Jack said he was going to seek his fortune and that he lay down there to sleep and that they awoke him shouting.
'' Nevertheless'' says the giant
'' you must come with me but first we must bury this man ''
Jack did so and he asked no questions.
The giant brought him to his castle and he told him he had work for him to do.
He told him he had a good many horses in the stable and that there were three men guarding them.
He had to take a horse out of the stable unnoticed by them.
If he failed in this he would be killed.
That day Jack went to a neighbouring man.
This man had a public house. Jack told him what he had to do. The man told him he would help him.
He gave him a bottle of whisky and put a drug in it
He told Jack to go to the stable and say that it was a cold night to the men that were guarding it.
Then he told him to talk to them a while and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Brady Meenaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Brady Meenaghan
- Gender
- Male
