School: Kinnegad (B.) (roll number 14362)
- Location:
- Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0729, Page 009
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- (continued from previous page)"By my wit and good learning".
"Begob, bad sess to you king's son".
He gave him his breakfast the next morning. The big dog ate it.
The next thing was to be done was to gather furze of a small hall and put them in a four cornered heap and point in the top.
The more furs he took out the more furs went in.
Fair lady green leaf came with his breakfast. She put a sleeping pin in his hair. When he awoke the furs were the way that Old Grahara said them to be. He awoke. Old Grahara came into the yard. "How did you do that", said he. "By my wit and good learning". "Bad sess to you king's son and the divel worse to your cuterers". He brought him in to give him his(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Oliver Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Coleman
- Gender
- Male
