School: An Tulach Mór (roll number 11047)
- Location:
- Tullamore, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Gearóid Mac Piarais
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- (continued from previous page)going around the world now with a ball of light in his nose and he is called "Jackie the Lantern".
- There was once a man by the name of Billy Murphy. He was working with a black-smith, and when the black-smith was dying he left Billy the forge. One day when he was working in the forge an old man came in and asked him for alms. Billy said "mhuise look at my children starving". Then the old man asked Billy could he warm himself, and Billy said to come up to the fire and he would give the bellows a few blows. After a while the old man got quite warm. Then he said to Billy to wish for three things and that his(continues on next page)
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