School: Druim Mór
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Catháin
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- (continued from previous page)you promise to give me your first born child."
"That is impossible because I have no child, but if I ever have I promise to give him to you."
"That's a bargain" said the black man & told him to get into the boat.
He brought him safely to land & then bade Good-bye to him. The sailor now set out to find the port for which he had sailed from Sligo, hoping to find tidings of his wife there. A year later he reached the port & found it & found it decorated as if for some festival. He asked the reason for the decorations & signs of rejoicing & was told that the Harbour master's daughter was to be married next day to the Captain of the ship. He inquired where the bride-to-be lived & when he found out where her house was situated he went towards it. She was sitting at a window & saw him approaching the house. She ran out to meet him, greeted him & welcomed him & took him into the house. There they met her father. She told him what the captain had done & then told him(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seosamh Ó Catháin
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Dromore West, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John Fox
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Shoemaker
- Address
- Farranmacfarrell, Co. Sligo
