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School: Doire Gualann (roll number 14979)

Location:
Derrygoolin North, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Seosamh Ó Tórpaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0322

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    This is a story that happened long ago but it wasn't in your time or my time but it was in three men's time namely Hudden, Dudden and Dan O'Leary. Hudden and Dudden could never be as prosperous as Dan Ó' Leary no matter how they tried and they grudged him his happiness. One day they planned that they would kill a bullock belonging to him and they did so.
    Next morning when Dan O'Leary found his bullock killed he never grumbled but he skinned it and brought the skin to the town to sell it. He put the woolen side in and the fleshy side out and said it might be all for luck. On his way to the town a parrot lodged on the skin and he got more than the price of the bullock for it and so much for the skin.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT1535: The Rich and the Poor Peasant
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Gretta Hayes
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derrygoolin South, Co. Galway
    Informant
    John Hayes
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    53
    Address
    Derrygoolin South, Co. Galway