School: Urbal (roll number 13874)

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1. A Story (continued)

   

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   to "get under" the coffin and help to carry it to Fahey graveyard. When the interment was over the 'mourners' began to get ready refreshments. One man ( a great friend of John's while on this earth) told him not to taste either the food or the drink. Next morning, John found himself in Fahey bog, lying up to a turf bank with his coat and shoes beside him.

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2. Story of a Pot of Gold

   

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   There was once a woman who caught a leprechaun. She asked him to give her a pot of gold. He said he had no gold. "If you fo not give me the pot of gold," said she, "I will bring you home and put you in a chest." He would not consent. So she brought him home and put him in the chest and then locked it. She left him there for a four days. One day, as she

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