Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 3)

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1. An Tarbh Breac (continued)

   

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   him & to report everything he did & said during the day. He said that she would watch him and follow him from a distance at first and then she would come up to him and question him as to what he ate. He was to say to her "Follow me & you will see for yourself." Then he was to bring her through the most difficult places - across rocks, through briars & shrubberies, through tangled undergrowths in the wood till her feet would be sore & bleeding & her clothes tattered & torn. He was to stop now & again & pick wild fruit here & there to pretend it was on these he lived. The bull told him not to come back to him till long after dark, till he was certain that his step-sister had gone home. His bringing her through the rough places & briars was done in order that she never attempt the same task again.
   They lay down & slept as before.

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Tom Gallagher