School: Ardkeenan
- Location:
- Ardkeenan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: John Meares
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- (continued from previous page)herself as she thought of the simple ruse which had so easily fooled the policeman.Collected by
Paddy Hannon
- In a certain village there was a hare that no hound had succeeded in catching. In that village also there lived a man who owned two swift hounds. One day he set out with these hounds to try and catch the hare.
He was looking for him for some time but at last the dogs rose the hare in a furze bush. They followed him until he was almost exhausted and they would have caught and killed him only for the hare jumped in through the window of a house occupied by an old woman. But one of the hounds bit one of the hare's back legs.
When the man came to the house he went in the door to see was the hare still inside. But he did not see a hare. Instead he saw the woman of the house lying on a bed with her feet covered with blood. When the woman saw the man and the hounds in her house(continues on next page) - Collector
- Paddy Hannon
- Gender
- Male
