School: Bunlahy, Granard
- Location:
- Bunlahy, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Mrs Brady
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- (continued from previous page)to send for a great doctor, but she said it would be no use for that there was nothing to cure her but three drops of blood from next the little bull's heart. The man did not like to have the bull killed, but she began to cry and said he thought more of the bull than of herself, so he had to give in.
She said they would let in a big bull to the field and he would kill him. The young lad knew nothing of this until that evening when the little bull said to him 'this is our last evening together, to-morrow there is a big bull coming to fight me. He will not kill me the first day but he will surely kill me the third day.
When the boy heard this he nearly went wild with grief, but the bull said. If you love me you will stop crying and listen to what I tell you, and if you do this I will not part from you for my strength will be always with you.(continues on next page)
