School: Kinnegad (B.) (roll number 14362)
- Location:
- Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Mac Cárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0729, Page 032
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- There was once a man who was very poor. He went to the fair one morning to sell his last cow. When he was going along the road a little man stepped out of the ditch. The little man offered to buy the cow. He said he would give him two black bottles for the cow.
The poor man gave him the cow for the bottles.The little man then told him when he went home he was to lay the bottles on the table. Then he had to say 'little men come(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Oliver Bergin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Thomas Waters
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kinnegad, Co. Westmeath
