School: Corra-bheagáin (roll number 12206)

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   “There was once a man and his wife who had only two daughters.”

   

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   There was once a man and his wife who had only two daughters. After a time their mother died, and their father got married again. The stepmother was very bad to the children. One day she sent them to a lake for a swan's egg. The children did as she told them, and when they reached the lake, they could not get to the place where the swan's used to lay their eggs. The children returned home to their stepmother, and she asked them did they succeed in getting the egg, and they said that they could not go across the lake to where the swan's were. The next day the stepmother sent them again to the lake for the swans egg. They went, and when they reached the lake, a

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Agnes Timlin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Corraveggaun West, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Michael Timlin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Corraveggaun West, Co. Mayo