School: Baile an Mhuilinn
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Rós Nic Airchinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 384
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- (continued from previous page)give him £20. Eoghainin asked her for some dough. She gave it to him and he proceeded to cover the bottom of the sieve with it and left it in the sun to dry. Then he filled it with water and brought it in and received £20.
Once on the road again he said to himself "There is one as foolish as my mother." He continued on his journey when one sunny day he saw a woman come from her house with a bucket in her hand to bring in the sun! She used to hold up the bucket to the sun and then run into the house with it. He went up to her and inquired what she was doing. "I am trying to make the sun shine on the hearth-stone," said she. He offered to help her and she willingly agreed. He got an iron bar and he made a hole in the wall opposite the fire and at once the sun shone on the hearth-stone. She was so delighted that she went to the room and brought down £20 which she handed to him.
He set out once more, saying to himself "There are two as foolish as my mother." At the end of six months he heard great shouting in the house and going in he saw a man sitting on a chair with his shirt half on him and his wife hammering him with a beetle on the head trying to put it on.(continues on next page)
