School: Montpelier, O'Brien's Bridge (roll number 14875)
- Location:
- Montpelier, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Liam Ó Tuama
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0524, Page 050
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- (continued from previous page)him a cure for it. She gave him a gold hairpin. Once he had the hairpin he could clean it out in a few minutes. He went in and told the Prince. The Prince gave him some food. The Prince then said he had a forest to get cut down. The boy said he would cut it down for some payment. He got an axe and started to cut down the forest. When he would cut one tree twice as much would grow. The boy was in a terrible state. The youngest daughter saw him again. She told him to cut her up into joints, and place the joints up to the tree where the golden eggs were. So he did. The boy got the three golden eggs. When he was coming down he forgot the joint of her little finger. He put her together again. Once he had the three golden eggs he could cut the forest in a few minutes. He told the Prince what he had done and the Prince paid him. The Prince said he had another job for him to do. He said he had a lake to teem out. The boy said he would do it if he would give him good pay.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derryhasna, Co. Limerick
