Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 3)

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1. An Tarbh Breac (continued)

   

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   on that night. They seperated before day break and the boy went off for himself. Early that morning he noticed that he had been watched but he pretended not to notice. After some time his stepsister came up to him and asked him how he was getting along and what he lived on and how he spent his time. He replied "Follow me and I will show you." He followed the advice of the bull. He took her over stony ways, through briars and brambles and as night approached the girl was so weary and footsore and entirely exhausted that she was glad to go home resolving never to return. After dark that night he met the bull and he slept as before. When the girl arrived at the palace she looked a complete wreck. She reported all she had seen and all she had suffered to her mother and now the mother was more puzzled then ever. She believed still that the boy had some other means of being fed besides

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Tom Gallagher