School: Rochfortbridge (Convent of Mercy) (roll number 14603)
- Location:
- Rochfortbridge, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Sr. M. Aquin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 529
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- (continued from previous page)account of his hunch back, so she told he would never regret it. On the stroke of twelve the music stopped, and the guests disappeared and the carter was left along, not in a ballroom, but on the same green (path) mound of earth so familiar to him on his journies to Rochfort Bridge to Clara mill, but to his great surprise no longer a hunch back but a perfect figure of man. Naturally enough on his return to his native town, his sudden cure gave rise to much gossip and another hunch back decided on asking him how he got cured. He told him his story and his pal decided on going next day with him which he did and on their return journey found the dance in progress. Being a very different type the new guest stepped into the ballroom, and was rather familiar with the guests, but his great surprise, at his departure, not along had he his own hunch back, but that of his pals piled on top of it, which gives rise to a saying in the district, "Never put in your brush where there is no dirt".
- Collector
- Mary Grehan
- Gender
- Female
