School: Tulach Bán (roll number 11322)
- Location:
- Tullywana, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Gormfhlaith
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- (continued from previous page)get any milk from her. After a time a very strange-looking little man came and drew some milk from the cow. Then he disappeared and after that Barney had no trouble in milking the cow and filling his pail of milk. In the evening the owner of the castle came again and brought away the milk and told Barney to go to his room for the night and to meet him in the yard next morning. When he met him in the yard next morning, he gave him a bridle and told him to catch a horse that was in the next field but no matter how he tried he could not catch him. So the strange little man came again and taking the bridle from Barney held it up and the horse came galloping towards him. He put on the bridle on the horse and handed it to Barney and then disappeared. After some time the owner of the castle came and asked Barney how he could catch the horse as no one ever could catch the horse before that. Barney told him about meeting with the strange little man and that it was he that caught the horse. "So he paid Barney his two thousand pounds and he returned home to his mother and that end's my story. "So put on the kettle and make tea, and if they did not live happy that we may."
- Collector
- Sean Mc Gourty
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James Gallagher
- Gender
- Male
