School: St Patricks Convent, Kilkenny (roll number 10478)
- Location:
- Kilkenny, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Dominic
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Long ago an old Gentleman forsook his daughter because she married a servant who worked in his own house. Some years after the Gentleman adopted his daughter's child because the father had died after a brief illness. He did not to see his daughter for years after.
The child grew up handsome and lovely. Then one Christmas a company of girls came to the house of the man. One morning the child whose name was Dorris came to the side of her grand-father and said "A nice lady came to my bed last night and gave(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katty Phelan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Maudlin Street, Co. Kilkenny
