School: Clonard (roll number 16067)
- Location:
- Clonard, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Fithcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0694, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)you would show me how to play. Then the wolf and the musician went on together until they came to an oak tree. There was a crack in the middle of the trunk. The musician said to the wolf 'put your fore feet into that crack'; the wolf did so. Then the musician took up a stone, and hammered the wolfs feet into the crack so that he would make him a prisoner, and the musician said to him 'be good until I come back'. Then the musician went off. The wolf kept biting until he got off. Then the wolf went on until he came to another tree where there was a hare, and the musician had tied the hare to the tree with a string, and he was shouting for help, and the wolf set the hare free. So the hare and the wolf went off, and when the musician came back they were gone.
- Once there was a boy named Thomas Smith in County Meath. He was a lazy boy and he did not like to get up early. His father (ha) had to pull him out of bed every morning. One day as Tom(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Brian Casserly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardnamullan, Co. Meath
