School: Drummullan (roll number 13829)
- Location:
- Drummullin, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Oirealla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0249, Page 282
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“Once a boy fell in with two robbers. Now there lived near those robbers a man who was very rich...”
Once a boy fell in with two robbers. Now there lived near those robbers a man who was very rich. Now the two thieves didn't know how they would get some of his riches. At last one of them thought of a plan. The plan was to let the boy down the chimney by a rope at night when the whole household would be asleep. One night they came and brought a long rope with them. They managed to let the boy down the chimney and promised to pull him back again. The boy found a bag of gold in a press he tied it to the rope and the two robbers pulled it up the chimney and left the boy to get out himself.
The boy prowled about for a while until he found a bull's skin with two horns on it. He wrapped it round him and began to make great noise. The man of the house wakened and asked who was there, the boy said it was the devil and that he had come for him. The man asked him to leave him for while, the boy said that he would leave him for seven years but to get up quick and open the door and let him go. The poor man opened the door(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Gormley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Commeen, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Lynda Shannon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Tansyfield, Co. Roscommon