School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ní Chróinín
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- (continued from previous page)he was a bad man. They took the other man's hump off the pin on the wall and put it on the top of his hump. They sent him with two humps.
- The time there was a farmer and he had a field of corn to cut. He had no one to help him. One day it happened that the farmer was cutting the corn and thirty wee men with green breeches stepped in a row behind the farmer and tackled to pull the corn and put it in small sheaves.
At six o'clock they had the corn pulled. They walked in a row once more for home singing their glorious songs. The farmer bade them "Good Luck". The following week the thirty wee men came back to help the farmer to take in his corn. The farmer being in the barn didn't see the wee men coming. The wee men came into the barn each carrying a few sheaves of corn across his shoulders. The farmer(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kate Coyle
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- James Coyle
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
