School: Druim Mór (roll number 16278)

Location:
Dromore, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Seosamh Ó Catháin
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    into a house where there was an olf woman and a young boy but he thought of the man's advice and he went out and lay in the hay. About one o'clock that night robbers came and robber the old woman and killed her and her son.
    When the man reached the place where his home was, his wife and son were asleep. The son was now a big man and the father throught that his wife was married again. He took up the tongs and was about to kill his son when he thought of the advice. He waskened the couple in the bed and to his great
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    Folktales index
    AT0910B: The Servant's Good Counsels
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    John Sweeney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dromore West, Co. Sligo