School: Doire Leathan, Grange (roll number 14843)
- Location:
- Derrylehan, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: -
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0155, Page 453
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- (continued from previous page)They agreed that each should have half but they did not know how to divide it equally.
Just then a fox chanched to come a long.
The fox consented and brought a pair of scales.
Breaking the cheese in two parts he placed them on the scales. One piece was found to be larger than the other and the fox broke a little piece off it and ate it himself then the other piece was biggest and he did the same with it. Then by taking a bit off each scale the cunning fox had the whole of the cheese for himself before the silly cats had seen what had happened.
I heard all these stories from my Grandmother and Tom Connolly Cullycare Grange, Sligo.
- Collector
- Maura Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilcat, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Tom Connolly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kiltykere, Co. Sligo
