School: Robertstown, Naas (roll number 15655)
- Location:
- Robertstown, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: P. Ó Harachtáin
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- (continued from previous page)And no doctor can cure until she gets the herb that is grown on the wall and no doctor will think of pulling that. So I expect a great time for the remander of my life. And the doctor that shall give this herb to the lady will get £500 and it is a perfect cure.
Tom listened very carefully. Then all the cats left the cave. The next morning Tom went to the village and dressed himself as a doctor and returned to the gentleman's house pulled the herb off the wall and told the gentleman he was a doctor. He told him that he would cure the lady. So he boiled the herb in a sup of milk. In less than an hour the lady called for her clothes and was as well as ever. Tom got the money from the gentleman and stopped in the village for a while. At last the time was up when he had to meet his brother at the cross roads. He was not long there tell he saw a crippled ragged man come up. Tom was surprised when he told him he was his brother. Tom asked jack why he was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Murtagh Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lowtown, Co. Kildare
