School: Trí Trian (Three Trees) (roll number 2680)

Location:
Three Trees, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Caitlín A. Scott
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    steal the horse and if he would not be able to do that he would be shot next day:
    That night when they were waiting on the thief. One of the men that were standing at the door saw a man lying on the path.
    But they though it was some poor man.
    Some of them went out to lift him when they had taken him in two bottles fell out of his pocket which was sleeping drops. But they men thought it was whiskey.
    Each one of them took share of it.
    Then they asked the man that was on the horse if he would take any and he said he would. When they had the sleeping drop all drunk they fell all asleep.
    The horse man fell of the horses back and all fell to
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    Folktales index
    AT0950: Rhampsinitus
    AT1525: The Master Thief
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