School: Curry (C.) (roll number 12067)

Location:
Curry, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Bean Uí Chaomháin
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  1. Once upon a time there was a poor scholar who used to live in a farmers house where he was supported. He learned all he could from the master.
    So one day he came to the farmers house and told him he was going away. The farmer asked him was he sick. "I am not sick" said the boy, but I have no use going to that school any longer.
    "I want the price of a book" he says
    So the farmer gave him the price of the book.
    Anyway he went to college and after the course of a couple of years he got ordained a priest.
    After sometime the farmer got very poor and he had to sell out his farm.
    And the farmer had to travel on the road like any poor man.
    He was a decent man on the road going from one big gentlemen's house to another. Once however it happened that this young priest made a big dinner and invited all the priests conventent so who chanced to come the way but the old farmer who gave him the price of the book! The old man knocked at the door and the priest answered the knock and he asked this old man did he know him.
    "no your reverend I don't know:
    "You don't know the poor scholar you gave the food to ?
    Says the priest to him. So
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Murtagh
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Bid Larry
    Gender
    Unknown