School: Kilglass (roll number 15571)

Location:
Kilglass, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Bean Uí Chléirigh
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    the herring out of the creel near him and throwing them on the road.
    After a time, this creel got as light, that the heavy creel turned over and threw the fish out on the road.
    The fox then jumped off the horse and went back, eating up the fish he had thrown out as he went.
    When the man arrived home he had neither fox nor fish.
    The labourer's wages.
    A man with a big farm of land hired a labourer to thrash his corn. His wages was, "All the corn he caught in his mouth for the day and to grow it every year on the man's land. At the end of twenty years the labourer had all the man's land.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. foxes (~151)
    Folktales index
    AT0001: The Theft of Fish
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Pat Sheridan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Kilglass, Co. Sligo