School: Lucan (B.)
- Location:
- Lucan, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: M. Mac Rois
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- XML “The Man who Hunted with the Devil”
- XML “The Hungry Man's Dream”
- XML “The Boasters”
- XML “The Ladder”
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- (continued from previous page)the heartstone to show the way he went. And in the crack is the prayer book which the priest let drop into it. This room is now bricked up. And the house has now only three hundred an sixty four windows, whereas it had three hundred and sixty five. Mr Connolly who owned the ground on which the chapel is built ever after only asks a halfpenny a year rent, to show his thanks to the priest.
- There were three men who were very hungry and had only one loaf between them. While they were trying to decide who would eat the loaf one of them said "Let the one who has the best dream take the loaf". The others agreed and they went to bed. In the morning one of them said "I dreamed that I had a Turnip, and it took two men to lift it; and the second man said "I dreamed that I had a pot to boil your Turnip in", and when it came to the third mans turn he said "I dreamed that I was hungry so I got up and ate the loaf".
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- Collector
- John Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Lucan, Co. Dublin
- One day two men were mending a roof when dinner time came, and one of them on the ground shouted to the other on the roof "Don't come down that ladder, I've taken it away"