School: Scoil na mBráthar, An t-Ósbuidéal (roll number 6543)
- Location:
- Hospital, Co. Limerick
- Teachers: An Br. S. Ó Hannracháin Eamon Ó Grainséin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0514, Page 383
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- 27. The Boy who Played Cards.In the olden days a boy was keen on playing cards. His mother stopped him from doing it for a week. His mother died, and he went playing cards again.
One night, as he was going to the card-house, he saw a thing in front of him. It asked him where he was going, and he told it. It disappeared immediately. He continued his journey. He saw a hand pointing to a hole in the ditch. He went over, and drew out a human skull. He took it to the chapel, and buried it, and when he was coming home from the card-house he was followed by a blackdog. He ran for his life, and jumped the gate at his own house, but the thing touched him and he fell dead.
That's what he got for his card-playing.Told to Dick O'Donnell,
Rathaney,
Co. Limerick.
- Collector
- Dick O Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr T. O Donnell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathanny, Co. Limerick
