School: Málainn (roll number 13949)

Location:
Malin, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Eilís Nic Uilcín
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    tailor he said he would go and let on he was looking for thatch also. So he went.
    He let on he missed the boat and he lay down on the strand.
    The same thing happened to him and he saw the same things when he went in.
    The shoemaker could not sing nor dance. In the morning the king told the shoemaker to come up to him and he stuck the hump that he had in the corner on top of the shoemaker's hump then the shoemaker was twice as bad as before.
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    Folktales index
    AT0503: The Gifts of the Little People
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Robbie Walker
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    John Mc Laughlin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Malin, Co. Donegal