School: Cill Liath (roll number 8696)
- Location:
- Killeagh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0396, Page 255
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“A miserly farmer who lived near Mitchelstown hired a man to work for him.”
(continued from previous page)The labourer was with him for a considerable time an was receiving a few shillings now and then. He thought he would never be paid.
One day he thought of a plan, and started to throw a small lump of coal into the farmer's well every day. At the end of the month he had about a bag of coal in the well. He got the offer of a better job elsewhere. One night the farmer sent him out for a bucket of water for the supper. He went and scooped up a bucket of coal and handed it to the farmer and said "Begor you have a coal mine in the well. The farmer went out and took a big bucket from the well. Then he called his wife and said to her "Pull out the stocking Kate and give this poor man a pound for every week he worked for us" and here is a pound for the road me good man and don't tell anyone" said the farmer.
- Collector
- Rosemary Cronin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymakeagh Beg, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Timothy Cronin
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballymakeagh Beg, Co. Cork