Scoil: Cromadh (B.)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal) (ar lean)

   “There was a man and a woman one time and they had a very big family.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   (ar lean ón leathanach roimhe)

   Miscellaneous.

   'em. When they were boiled they were the finest potatoes you ever saw, jumpin out o their skins. He told her to go out again and bring in a little soil. She did so and she had it well inside the door when 'twas salt she had. He then sent her to the well, Thubbernoonan (see cuid 1) for water and the poor man made wine of that.

   After that the poor man went away to the hill preaching. The woman went to the hill after him, but he sent her home, and told her that when he'd returned to her house, he'd want to like down there. He came back after some time and he told them to bring in some good sized stones. They did so and he made loaves of them. From that day out they were never poor again. They say that the poor man was Saint Patrick. (M. O'Hartigan
   13 1/2 bl. ó n a mháthair)

   

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

   Stair Athraigh

2. (gan teideal)

   “There was a man one time and he had one son.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   There was a man one time and he had one son. The man's wife died, and he married again. The second wife had two more sons for him. One day the horse they had, fell sick and the man went to Biddy Early for a cure. She told him to call all his children to the table for their supper when he'd go home. The eldest child would sneeze three times. If no one said God bless us child" the horse would live and the child would die. When he came home he told his wife to get the children's supper ready and he called

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

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

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Michael O Hartigan

   Inscne

   Fireann