School: Druim Mór
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0167, Page 240
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- (continued from previous page)& did not intend to tell her if he could help it - but she kept asking & asking & asking what was the matter with him & at last he was forced to tell her. When she heard the story she took the thing quietly & said "Oh! never mind God will send us another to take his place."
Next day, the day on which the promise was to be fulfilled the man, his wife & two children dressed in their best proceeded down the garden path to the spot where they were to meet the black man, each carried a child. When they reached the appointed place the black man was there before them. "Well" he said to the sailor "I see you are a man of your word." "Yes," said the sailor, I have always tried to keep my word - no matter what the sacrifice." "Are you ready now to fulfil your promise" "Yes, although it is hard." Mother & father then kissed the child & the father handed him over to the black man. The black man next(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
