School: Ladhar an Chrompáin (roll number 14998)
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- Ladhar an Chrompáin, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407, Page 446
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“There once lived three sisters in the same house.”
There once lived three sisters in the same house. A great giant used to come to the house each day because the girls had a stocking of gold under their bed. They had magic bottles too in the house. One day the giant took three of the bottles and gave them to the girls to drink. He changed one of them into a goose, another into a fax and the other into a goat. The fox and the goose went away to the brink of a well and the fox killed the goose. When the giant came to the place he saw the blood after the goose and he said to the goat, "What put this here?" The goat said "You killed my sister". Then the giant(continues on next page)