School: Druim Mór
- Location:
- An Droim Mór, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0167, Page 247
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Billy & Jack were brothers. Their mother was dead & their father had married again. Their stepmother had no love for the two boys & wished to get rid of them in some way. She ordered the steward to take them out to a wood & leave them there to die. One day the steward took the two children to a wood, but Billy, before he left home, filled his pockets with little white stones & dropped them as he went along so that he would find his way home again. The steward left them in the wood & disappeared but to the surprise of stepmother & steward the two boys arrived home almost as soon as the steward. The stepmother reprimanded the steward for carrying out her orders so slovenly. She ordered him to take them away again to the wood & if he did not do his work properly this time he would be steward no longer. He set off to the wood again(continues on next page)
