School: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)
- Location:
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Ó Heslin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0225, Page 219
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“Once upon a time long, long ago, a man was mowing a meadow.”
Once upon a time long, long ago a man was mowing a meadow. He saw a weasel's nest. He pulled it out and scattered it about the field. The old weasel saw him doing this. The man had a gallon of milk. The weasel went up to the gallon, and he spit into it and went away. After a while the man said to himself ''I'll fix back the nest, for the weasel might do me harm.'' So he fixed back the nest, and when the weasel saw him fixing the nest it went up and emptied the gallon of milk so that it would not poison him.
- Collector
- Tommie Darcy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Thomas Darcy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim