Scoil: Dromlachan

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1. Story

   

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   Taken down from Phil McLoughlin, Farmer, aged 55
   townland of Rocullion Parish of Cloone who heard it from the old people.
   Once upon a time there was a man, and he had a son, and when the son grew up the father told him that he would have to earn his own living, and that the best thing he could do was to learn a trade. So the father asked him what trade he'd like and he said he'd like to be a thief. So the father sent him, when he was eighteen years old, to the Black Thief to learn his trade, for the Black Thief was the greatest and "cutest"
   thief in all Ireland. He spent three years with the black thief, and he was a very good pupil, and in the end he was almost as cute as the Black Thief himself.
   When he had his time served with the Black Thief, and was ready to start out for himself, the black thief said he would give him a few final tests before he'd let him go. So one fine sunny day the black thief took the boy out on the side of a hill and at the bottom of the hill they saw a man driving one sheep along an old lane, so the black thief said to the boy, "Would you be

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   Innéacs seanscéalta

   AT1525: The Master Thief

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh

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   Faisnéiseoir

   Phil Mc Loughlin

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   Fireann

   Aois

   55

   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Ráth Chuilinn, Co. Liatroma