
A Story
- Language
- English
- Collector
- Margaret Rodgers
- Informant
- Mrs Mollow
Two youths pass the night with a family where all sleep in a common room, with a cradle at the foot of one of the beds. The moving of the cradle in the night confuses those walking about so that the strangers sleep with the wife and the daughter. [See Type 1544.]
“Once there was a woman and a man who had some men working for them.”
“Bhí buachaill ann fadó . . .”
“Bhí sean-fhear ann fadó ar a dtugadh Páidín Ruadh air. Theigheadh sé ar cuairt chuile oidche ag teacht tailluira.”
“Bhí mhac baintrighe ann uair amháin.”