School: An Cheathrú Gharbh

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   hair but she was so much flattered that she became conceited and thought there was no one half so lovely in the world as she was.
   One day she was walking with a lady in waiting through a dense wood, close to the palace when she met a poor old woman who was nearly bent with age.
   She was dressed in torn rags and she was bare-footed. She stopped them and asked a charity for God’s sake. The naughty princess burst into a peal of laughter, and told the poor (princess) beggar to go away quickly. She said she was so ugly, that if she had a tail anyone would think she was a monkey. As the princess spoke she took out a lovely cake and began to eat it. The

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   AT0480: The Spinning‑Women by the Spring. The Kind and the Unkind Girls.

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Ellen Ormsby

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ceathrú Mhainnín, Co. Mhaigh Eo