School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór
- Location:
- Knocknagree, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0358, Page 131
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“There was a man long ago named Seán na Stocaí so called because he made his living by selling stockings.”
(continued from previous page)roof to eat the grass that was growing in it. He asked them what would they give him if he got the cow to eat it. They said they would give him a half-crown and he agreed. He caught a reaping hook and he cut the grass and he broght it down to the cow. When they saw what he had done one of them said to the other "If we thought of that ourselves we could have done it so, they agreed to follow him and they caught him and took him before an arbitrator (because there was no magistrates) He decided he had it earned and left him go Lazy Bones vowed he would not sleep in any bed until he met four people as easily fooled as the people he had passed He went on and coming on dinner(continues on next page)