School: Clews' Memorial (roll number 15465)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Néill
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Story (continued)
“Once upon a time there lived a king and queen who had an only son.”
(continued from previous page)their dance. When invited to dance, he pretended he was too shy on account of his hump. Then he took the floor, and while he was dancing the fairies produced the box containing the prince's hump and clapped the hump on the king, over his own.
The crafty king went home with a very heavy load, for he now had his son's hump as well as his own, and he had to be content to carry this heavy load during the remainder of his life.
- A pardóg of turf. a bacóg of turf
"He's a mairg that doesn't wait for the fine day"
He told a poltóg of a lie (a big lie)
He is a shuler (a person who is continually roving around).
Take a dreas at the churn
I don't give a tráithnín (I don't care).
A mám of meal, a glám of meal (see back overleaf)
