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

Location:
Curry, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Bean Uí Chaomháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0655

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0655

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    against the devil. Just then the woman cried out that her husband was dead and the friars tell her that the bundle of straw has won him heaven.
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  2. The four sons of a certain King set out to find a fortune.
    A. becomes an apprentice to a master
    B. to a Mark's man
    C. to a man of great hearing powers
    D. to a master chief
    At the end of a year the four brothers meet and relate their happenings to the father who is well pleased is satisfied that they have occupied their time well.
    Learning from their father that a gentleman in England had lost his daughter on hearing this the four brothers set out to find her.
    C. listens attentively and then he discovers that she had been carried off to the eastern world. A makes a three masted ship on which
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    Folktales index
    AT0653: The Four Skillful Brothers
    AT0654: The Three Brothers
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Henry
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    John Ward
    Gender
    Male