School: An Bháinseach (C.) (roll number 11965)

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   “On a cold winter's daya woman with a baby boy in her arms at cakes and jam rolls in the town of W-.”

   

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   On a cold winter's day a woman with a baby boy in her arms stared hungrily at cakes and jam rolls in a shop window in the town of W -. She was penniless, and she could not remember when last she had partaken of a square meal. Turning away with a sob in her throat, she was accosted by a stranger, fashionably dressed, who asked her why she was so disconsolate. She told him of her want, and he replied, that if she gave him charge of her son at the age of twenty one, body and soul, she might never again want for food and the good things of this world. The poor woman (desperately hungry) promised. Her baby was now only twelve months, and twenty years seemed a long time. All went well with her from that day onwards, but she often thought of the stranger and her promise. When her son, - Mickey had attained manhood, a farmer from over the hills, came and asked if the mother would allow Mickey to go with him to his place, and help at gathering the harvest. Mickey was desirous of seeing life, and he persuaded his mother to allow him to go. She agreed after some time, and when farewells had been taken, Mickey set out in the horse

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   History Edit

   Informant

   William O' Dwyer

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Booleen, Co. Tipperary