School: Drummullan (roll number 13829)

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   “Once there lived a rat and a weasel in a bog. The rat thought if he could kill the weasel he would have the whole bog to himself and the weasel thought the same thing...”

   

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   and he waited for him behind the barn door and when the wolf was busy looking for a good fat sheep, he had a stout cudgel laid about his back that combed his locks for him finely.
   Then the wolf was very angry and called Sultan "an old rogue", and swore he would have his revenge. So next the wolf sent the boar to challenge Sultan to come to the wood and fight the matter out. Now Sultan had nobody he could ask to be his second except the shepherd's three - legged cat so he took her with him, and as the poor thing limped along with some trouble she stuck her tail up in the air. When the wolf and the boar saw their enemies coming and the cat's tail standing straight in the air, they thought that it was a sword she was carrying for Sultan to fight with. Every time she limped they thought she was picking up stones to throw at them, so they said they should not like this way of fighting. So the boar lay down behind a bush and the wolf ran up a tree. Sultan and the cat soon came up and wondered why nobody was there. The boar had not hidden

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   James Gormley

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Commeen, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   Lynda Shannon

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   60

   Address

   Tansyfield, Co. Roscommon