Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 3)

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1. An Tarbh Breac (continued)

   

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   would have gone home before he could come to meet him. All happened as the bull had told him the second daughter returned home without any information.
   IV
   The third daughter with the three eyes was now sent to the mountains to watch him. On the night before she came the bull told him to be extra careful and to give her the hardest run of all. He was to make sure that she was gone home long before he came to meet him as she would be able to see him with the eye in the back of her head a long distance away while she was faced in the opposite direction. She came and she questioned him just as the other two did. In the evening she set out for home tired and footsore. When the boy thought she was well out of sight he went to the bull and had his meal as usual. But she with the eye in the back of her head saw

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Tom Gallagher