School: Johnswell, Kilkenny (roll number 3247)
- Location:
- Johnswell, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Héigceartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0862, Page 482
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“Once upon a time there lived a man and his wife and they had two children. This day they brought out the two two children to the hay field and left them at a tram while they were at some trams.”
(continued from previous page)were they giving so much trouble to their mother. They said that they were not her children but that her children were gone and "we were left in their place." So when the mother came home he told her. So she left the children at the tram and they were gone in the morning when she went to look where they were at the tram where she left them. So next morning when she got up the two children were in the cradle at the side of the fire. The tradesman told her to leave them in the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Andy Tobin
- Gender
- Male