School: Órán Mór (B) (roll number 4506)
- Location:
- Oranmore, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheál Ó agus Máire Bean Uí Shuilleabháin
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“Long ago there was a poor man herding sheep for a farmer.”
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“Once upon a time there lived two brothers.”
Once upon a time there lived two brothers. One was very wise and the other was very foolish. One day the two brothers were invited to a gentleman's house for dinner. So the two went and the foolish brother was doing what he saw the others doing. When the dinner was over they all began to lean back he tumbled over and his legs struck the table and knocked all the delph. The other brother did not know what to do then. He called the the foolish one outside the door and gave him a five pound note and told him that it would bring him home. He went off for a good bit of the road and he took the five pound note out of his pocket and her got a stick and he was beating it when a young fellow with an ass came along and asked him what was he doing(continues on next page)