School: Tullach (Tullig) (roll number 4451)
- Location:
- Tullig More, Co. Cork
- Teacher: D. Ó Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0344, Page 131
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- Long ago there lived a man who had a horse that would never work unless there was a man on his back, and another one driving him.
The owner however could not afford to have two men following one horse so he decided to do something to trick the horse.
One day he got a coat a hat and a trousers. He filled the trousers with stones and stuffed rest of the "man" with hay.
At first he strapped the "man" very carefully and the horse went on quietly.
However he strapped the "man" rather careless one day while ploughing in a field the man fell off and the stones fell out of the trousers.
When the horse saw this he refused to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Buckley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rylane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Timothy Buckley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Rylane, Co. Cork
