School: Bawnboy
- Location:
- Bawnboy, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Grady
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0963, Page 265
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- (continued from previous page)to offer them a drink out of the bottle but to pretend that he was drinking a drop first
Jack did as he was told and when he was a while talking to the men he took out the bottle and pretended that he was drinking a drop first. Then the three took a drop and before long they fell fast asleep.
Jack took one of the horses out and hid it in another place.
When morning came Jack told the giant that he brought out one of the horses unnoticed by the men.The giant told him he had another job for him to do.
He told him he would he would have to pull the sheet from under him in the bed that night and that if he found him doing this he would shoot him.
That day Jack went to the neighbour man and he told him he would help him.
That night the two of them went to a graveyard and they opened a grave and took out a corpse out of the grave.
They went to the castle and went up on the roof beside the chimney
They tied the corpse to a rope and they began to put it up and down the chimney
The giants heard this and he thought it was Jack coming down the chimney to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Brady Meenaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick Brady Meenaghan
- Gender
- Male
