School: Béal Átha 'n Fheadha (B.) (roll number 13631)

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1. The Little Boy and His Bad Stepmother (continued)

   

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   but she always made sure to have the little boy in bed and the meal licked off the flag before the father would come home in the evening from work. The father often asked her why she had'nt him up when he would come home. But the stepmother would pass it off and say that when he seen (saw) him looking pale that she thought it might do him good to go to bed early. So one night the stepmother got very sick and had to go to bed. The doctor was sent for and while he was upstairs the little boy was sitting one side of the fire and the father was sitting the other side and the little boy began to speak in Irish because in those days there was nothing but Irish spoken "What is that you are saying" asked the father "Say it again" So the little boy said "I

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Val Muldowney

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballina, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Mrs Broderick

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballina, Co. Mayo