School: Harristown, Piltown (roll number 13449)
- Location:
- Harristown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: G. Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)kept after the hares however, one half of him after one hare and the other half after the other hare. The hound returned home that night with the two hares. Kelly went to bed that night and when he got up the next morning he found the hound lying dead in the yard. He thought so much of the hound that he skinned hi and his wife made a waistcoat out of the skin for him. A few days after while Kelly was cutting furze on the hill he rose another hare. The waistcoat was lying on the ground and up it jumped and ran across the hill after the hare. Kelly never saw or never heard of the waistcoat after.
