School: Camross, Mountrath

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   “Long ago there lived a king. ...”

   

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   same chamber as the Queen. He saw a lady sitting in the chamber. He thought she was asleep but he found she was dead. She was in her wedding clothes. This was the Queen that was locked in thirty years before. A black cat came into the chamber. The man wrote a note and tied it to the cat's tail. After two days the people saw the note and read it because the cat was able to get out of the chamber. When they found out where the chamber was they went and got out the man and the Queen. They buried the Queen. There was no one alive belonging to the Queen but her mother who was very old.

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   “Long ago there lived a Protestant man. ...”

   

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   Long ago there lived a Protestant man. He was a very bad man and he hated the Catholics. When he died a priest said that he was in hell. The Protestants got vexed and they went and asked the priest to prove it. The priest asked them would they like to see it been proved and they said they would. The priest brought them to the house where the man lived. He had a book and he read

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