School: Druim Mór
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Catháin
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- (continued from previous page)ready to pay £10 to get back your child. You once paid £10 for me & now here is your child back again to you & my debt is paid. The black man then disappeared & the parents were left speechless looking at each other.
- III
A big farmer offered a handsome salary to a man who would help him on the farm, teach his wife to speak Latin & his cat to teach Irish. After some time a boy came to him & offered to do what he asked.
He was not long in his new employment till he found out that the farmer's wife was 'carrying on' with a young man in the district in the absence of his husband. When the farmer & he went out to work this young man used(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
