School: Brackey (roll number 3500)
- Location:
- Bracky, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig S. Mac a' Ghoill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1041, Page 198
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“There were two protestants and a catholic living together one time. The father of each was dead, but their mothers were alive.”
(continued from previous page)house, and [burryed] her. The man of the house asked the catholic how much would he take, and he said three hundred pounds. The man said that he had only a hundred and fifty, and the boy had to do with that. When he came home he showed the protestants what he got for his mother, and they went and killed their own two mothers. They went to the town to sell them, and the first house they went into they said old women are going high this weather.
They were chased home for their lives and they were surely going to kill the catholic. They put him into a bag to drown him in a lough, and when they were near the lough they saw a hare with a golden side, and a silver side. One of them let down the bag, and followed the hare. The other thought that he was coming no speed, and ran himself. The catholic then heard a troop coming to him, and he started to sing "Am going to heaven".
The man that was outside told him to let him in that he had a good chance, but he himself had none because he was a protestant minister. The catholic asked him what would he give him to let him in(continues on next page)