School: Eanach Mór (roll number 13912)
- Location:
- Annagh More, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mártain Ó Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0142, Page 58
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- XML “The Fox and the Hedgehog”
- XML “The Fox Caught Stealing Geese”
- XML “The Fox and the Fish”
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“The soldiers came to a certain house looking for Father Sweeney.”
(continued from previous page)ning before Fr Sweeney was hanged some people from Newport were crossing a river and noticed a dead fish floating down with the current.
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- Mártain Ó Braonáin
- Gender
- Male
- One time a fox went into a stable and killed all the geese but he could not get out. He waited there until morning and the man of the house came out. The fox pretended to be dead and lied down among the geese. When the man came in he said mo sheacht mallacht ar an sionnach bradach. He caught the fox and fired him out the door with great vexation. When the fox got outside he ran off as tight as he could. From that on the man looked well at a thing before he would do anything with it.
- One time a fox was on the road and he seen a man(continues on next page)
