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School: St Boden's, Culdaff

Location:
Culdaff, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 193

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    and he fainted when he saw all the gold. After a minute he got up and filled four bags of gold and put them on the donkey's back an covered it with logs and started home and put past all the gold.
    He married a poor old woman and she one day found out the secret but never "let on" to anyone but filled her stockings and put them under her bed. One day the house was put on fire and every one ran and got a handful of gold and after all the robbers were were killed he got all the gold and lived happily ever after while he was a poor wood-cutter in the beginning.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT0676: Open Sesame
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mick Mc Daid
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Paddy Mc Colgan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Carthage, Co. Donegal