School: Anach (roll number 13630)
- Location:
- Annagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Bhanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0182, Page 411
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- (continued from previous page)caught him and took the poteen from him. They all went into the house drank the poteen never dreaming about the horses. When they came out again they found the horses gone. For the next night the king gave the boy his last and hardest task. He told him to steal the sheet from under himself and the Queen that night. He also told him he would have a candle lit in his room and would also have his gun. The boy went a grave-yard where he knew there was a young man just buried that day. He took up the dead body and put his own clothes on him, he then tied a rope around him and let him down the chimney. When the king saw the dead man he thought it was the thief and be shot him. The Queen said to him not to leave him there all night. Then the king went out to bury the thief. When the king was gone out the thief came in and asked for the sheet. The Queen thought it was the king and gave it to him. Later the king returned he found the sheet gone. And he said to the Queen that they would have to go from the place or the boy would steal all their possessions.
- Collector
- Maire Dunne
- Gender
- Female
