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School: Donabate (B.)

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Donabate, Co. Dublin
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L. Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0789, Page 303

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  1. How Dean Swift Employed His Servant

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    Many years ago a man by the name of Dean Swift used to visit his wife Stella who used to spend her Summer holidays in Portrane Castle Donabate.
    One day as the Dean was walking through the fields, he met a lazy boy lying in a lazy position along a fence. Dean asked him the way to a certain place. The lazy boy stretched out his leg and with the toe of his boot pointed to the direction.
    The Dean smiled and asked the boy again could he do anything lazier than that and I will give you a shilling, and the boy answered put the shilling in my pocket, and the Dean laughed heartily.
    The Dean asked him which way
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    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT0921: The King and the Peasant's Son
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Fitzpatrick
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Donabate, Co. Dublin
    Informant
    Mr John Dockrell
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Burrow, Co. Dublin