School: Tamney (Robertson)
- Location:
- Tawny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mrs Kyle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1090, Page 302
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- (continued from previous page)night. So she took him in, and gave him his supper, and put him to bed in a little dark room with one little window in it.
She went away after show him his bed, and she locked the door when she went out.
A she went out, he got very suspicious of her locking the door on him. He listened at the door, when she went out to hear if he would hear anything a saying about him.
After a little while, he heard her bringing in a man from outside and telling him to kill this man she had imprisoned.
She told him he would get a little [?] wishing cap in the window inside, and anything he would wish for [?] get it without anytrouble.
This man went in and took away the man she had imprisoned, and the man had a knife in his pocket.
When he took him aut, he put him up on a wheel cart, to kill him(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John J. Borland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tawny, Co. Donegal
