School: Derryvoney
- Location:
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ní Néill
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- (continued from previous page)he could have found a method to keep Needy in bounds and have his donkey and potatoes safe.
- One Christmas Eve a farmer caught a fox stealing his geese. Pray farmer spare me said the fox. You must agree that I cannot live without food, and I will give you my word of honour that I have never stolen from you only when I am very hungry. Last Monday I met two of your fattest turkeys walking by the river and I did not frighten them. The next day I met your finest hen. She called me a scoundrel. I did not even snap at her
The man bent down to let (you) out the fox from the wire which he was caught in. But suddenly a crow which had been sitting on a tree listening to the talk began to caw until he nearly(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Treacy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Hugh Curry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derryvony, Co. Cavan
