School: Más an Easa (C.) (roll number 14776)
- Location:
- Más an Easa, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Máire Ní Cholchuin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1075, Page 278
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- (continued from previous page)put the rope down the chimney. He tied to his own waist, and then started churning. A pig came into the house, and overturned the churn. The cow give a pull, and pulled John up the chimney and he stuck in it.
The child fell out of the cradle, the pig tossing everything and the churn overturned, and John stuck in the chimney. By this time the woman was getting hungry, and she went into the house for her dinner. She could not see John, but she saw the kitchen in an awful state, and she was very angry. She said john, where are you. He said "Stuck in the chimney". With the help of some friends, John was got down the chimney, but he never asked to keep house again.
- Collector
- Anna Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Más an Easa, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Peter Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Más an Easa, Co. Dhún na nGall
