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Ar an leathanach seo

1. Wild Birds (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   one egg out of the nest every day then she will lay on until she gets up the count and then if the eggs are left back in the nest she will hatch them all.
   One time the birds wanted to know which of them would be the king. They went to St. Columcille to find out this as there was no right agreement among them as to which of them should be king. St. Columcille agreed to be judge between them and he said that the bird which would fly the highest would be the king. All of them agreed that this would be fair and that they should would always live by it. Then he started them to fly and they were not far up till first one dropped out, and so on until at last the eagle only seemed to be left and when he reached the highest what happened but up flew the wren from the eagle's back and it flew a few feet higher in the sky and then came down the king of all the birds. St. Colmcille could not go back on his word and he said that it should never fly any higher above the earth than what it flew above the eagle's back. That is why to the present time that the wren can only fly the height of a man's knee above the ground.

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. seanchas ainmhithe (~1,185)
         1. seanchas na n-éan (~2,478)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Charles Lynch

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Glencrow, Co. Dhún na nGall