School: Kilcullen (Convent) (roll number 11806)

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Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Na Siúracha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0780, Page 220

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  3. XML “Folk-Tales - The Princess who Could Not Cry”
  4. XML “Folk-Tales - Man Trades His House for Cow, Cow for Pig etc”

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    1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Carmel Maguire
    Gender
    Female
  2. There was a man and his wife who lived together in a little hut outside the village. Whatever one did the other said was a good idea.
    One day the man decided to bring the horse to the market and sell it. On his way he met a man with a cow and he exchanged the horse for the cow. As he continued on his way he kept exchanging from a cow to a pig then a goose
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