School: Gortlitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gortletteragh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 053
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- (continued from previous page)she opened the bag and the ox came out and the little boy hunted him over the fields. When the fox came back he said "Where is my ox" and she said "the little boy hunted him over the fields" and he said "I must have the boy" and he put him in the bag and went off to a house where there was a woman baking a cake and children around her craving for a bit.The fox told her not open the bag that he was going away. When he was gone the little boy shouted out of the bag "give me a bit". Then the woman took out the boy and put in her dog instead. When the fox came back he took the bag and went singing up the hill and he went into a wood(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Griffin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Farnaght, Co. Leitrim
