School: Fairche, Cill Dairbhre (roll number 6834)
- Location:
- An Fhairche, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán Mac Fheorais
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0373, Page 286
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- (continued from previous page)"Yera that is quite simple" The first thing he done was he caught or five live rabbits and he hid in the bushes at the end of the field. He tied a cord on t the rabbits leggs and he left them run out the field. The man saw the rabbits and he said to himself he would go for a hunt. So he went down to the end of the field for a hunt. Then Billy went up and took away the pair of horses. Next day the gentle - man said "I heard your son stole the pair of horses" "He did" said the poor man "Well the next thing is to steal the sheet from under myself and my wife" said the gentle - man. The poor man was roaring and balling and crying for he thought he would never do that. The first thing Billy did was he went to the grave - yard and dug up a corpse that was buried the day before. Then he went up to the top of the chimney and life down the corpse. The gentle - man flung a shot for he thought it was Billy was there. When the gentle - man saw the dead man he said to his wife, "We have the end of Billy at last". Then the gentle - man went to bury Billy as he thought it was Billy he had shot. While he was bury the corpse(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tom Bulman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Ghráig, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Denis Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Ghráig, Co. Chorcaí
