School: Eanach Mór (roll number 13912)
- Location:
- Annagh More, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mártain Ó Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0142, Page 132
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- (continued from previous page)day. So he did everything that the child did during the day. When the night came the father took off his shoes & the child took one & put his two feet into it. The man was surprised but he failed in doing that, and he was shamed among his neighbours & friends for doing such a silly thing.
- Long ago there was a woman & her son & they lived in a small house on the side of a mountain. One day a man came into the house after hunting & he had his gun with him. He was very tired & he stretched on the bed near the fire. There was a lot of flies going around & they were eating him. So the mother told the son to go over & keep away the flies. What did the son do but get the hatchet & struck the man with it & killed him. The mother was frightened & she told the son not to say that he killed him at all. They went out & buried him in the garden. That very night the mother got afraid that the guards would come & get the man. So she got up & rose up the man & went & buried him in another place. She killed an old goat & put her in the place of the dead man. On the next morning the guards came & what did the son do but tell them that he killed the man & where he buried him. But the son was out of his ways as you see from the story. When they searched they got the hole & they thought it was the man, but what was it but the goat.
- Collector
- Mártain Ó Braonáin
- Gender
- Male
