School: Cúige na Mainseár
- Location:
- Quignamanger, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Antoine Mac Amhaghladha
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“Once upon a time there was a fisherman and he was never getting any fish when he would go out fishing.”
Once upon a time there was a fisherman and he was never getting any fish when he would go out fishing. One day as he was going out fishing he saw a lovely mermaid and she spoke to him and said that if he fished out there he would get a fish that was so big that no one could eat and no table could hold and when he would get the fish to cut off his head and throw the body into the sea and he would get plenty of fish then and throw the head into his stable and leave it there under lock until his son would be 21 years of age. The man got the fish and did as the mermaid told him and he got the fish. One day his son(continues on next page)