School: Baile an Daingin (B) (roll number 1676)

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1. The Story of Stuaic (continued)

   

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   in his pocket with him. When they were coming home all the other horses left the young man and his wife. Stuaic asked her husband why did he bring a bad horse. The man replied, "The horse will cross the fields and we will get home first."
   The man told the horse to cross the first hedge but he would not. The man came down off the horse and took down his saddle. He told her to come down and to take down her saddle also. He took up his revolvor out of his pocket and shot the horse. There did a hare soon arise and the hound followed him. The man whistled for him but he would not come back. The hound came back when he liked. The man shot him when came back.
   Stuaic asked her husband why did he shoot the horse and the hound. He said that was the rule in his house. Any one that refuses to do what he is told is shot. They went home and all the feast was eaten. They had to sit in and make the best of it. Stuaic's husband got up the next morning and ate his breakfast. His wife did not get up until about half past ten. There was nothing

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mark Connolly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballindine, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Thomas Connolly

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Address

   Ballindine, Co. Mayo