School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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- (continued from previous page)must have been his own beef that was making the feast.There was once a widow and she had a son. When he was seven years old she sent him out into the garden and asked him to pull a small tree but he failed.She sent him again when he was fourteen years but he did not succeed. Again she sent him when he was twenty-one and this time he succeeded, and said he would keep it as a walking-stick.After a few months he said he would go and seek his fortune. The day before he left his mother baked two buns, a big one and a small one and asked him which would he take, the small one and her blessing or the big one and her curse. He said he would take the small one and her blessing. He went away to get work after a month. He kept going until he came to a farmer's house and he asked
- There was once a widow and she had a son. When he was seven years old she sent him out into the garden and asked him to pull a small tree but he failed.
She sent him again when he was fourteen years but he did not succeed. Again she sent him when he was twenty-one and this time he succeeded, and said he would keep it as a walking-stick.
After a few months he said he would go and seek his fortune. The day before he left his mother baked two buns, a big one and a small one and asked him whitch would he take, the small one and her blessing or the big one and her curse. He said he would take the small one and her blessing.
He went away to get work after a month. He kept going until he came to a farmer's house and he asked(continues on next page)
