School: Trí Trian (Three Trees) (roll number 2680)
- Location:
- Three Trees, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Caitlín A. Scott
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1113, Page 446
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- (continued from previous page)to steal a sheet from under a man and his wife and they would have loaded revolvers waiting on him and if he would not be able to steal the sheet he would be hanged.
Next day he got a dead man that was not long buried. He put it up in front of the back window he pulled it up and down.
When the man saw the man looking in the window he fired at him and he fell down. He thought that he had the robber shot but it was the dead man.
The man said to his wife that he must bury him before the morning because the police would be looking to see who done it.
While the man was out burying him the clever robber went in to the bed with the man's wife he said ly over a peace(continues on next page)
