School: St. Brendan's (C.), Blennerville

Location:
Blennerville, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Mhuircheartaigh
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0441, Page 066

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0441, Page 066

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: St. Brendan's (C.), Blennerville
  2. XML Page 066
  3. XML “A Funny Story”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Long ago there lived three men named Hudden, and Dudden,and Daniel O'Leary.
    Hudden and Dudden were very rich and had a big farm, but Daniel was very poor.
    Hudden and Dudden made up their minds to drown Daniel,and one day they got a bag and put him into it, and tied the top of the bag, and put the bag near the brink of the river. They returned home because they forgot something. While they were at home a herdsman passed the way, he heard Daniel roaring "I am going to heaven in a bag." The herdsman said "Will you let me in there in the bag with you? and I will give you two hundred pounds? Daniel said I will.
    Daniel left the little man into the bag, and the little man gave him the two hundred pound's. Daniel said that when he would say three he would hop up to heaven in a bag.
    About a week later there was a fair in Tralee and the three men were present.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT1535: The Rich and the Poor Peasant
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Moriarty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tonavane, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Peter Moriarty
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Tonavane, Co. Kerry