School: Órán Mór (B) (roll number 4506)

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   “Once upon a time there was a woman and she had two sons.”

   

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   went after him. He got him sitting down in the hole of potatoes crying and he said to him are you my brother I am he said. Why are you crying. I am crying be cause my mother is after refusing me my dinner. Where were you all the time. I was (was) with the fairies. Come home with me and he did so and when his mother saw her son back again she was happy that he was saved.

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   “One night there was a man and his wife and family sitting around the fire and a knock came to the door and the man...”

   

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   One night there was a man and his wife and family sitting around the fire and a knock came to the door and the man was getting up to open it when some one struck him with a sod of turf on the back. A great number of fairies came in and they started beating the man and his wife and children. They brought the man away with them. After a few days he came back to his wife and he said to her "you can save me to-morrow night." We will have a race and I will be the third horse and when I will be passing you out throw a sod of turf at me and I will be saved. Next night when he was passing her out she threw a sod of turf at him and he was

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