School: Ballyadams (roll number 894)
- Location:
- Ballyadams, Co. Laois
- Teacher: P. Ó Bruadair
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- (continued from previous page)put the granny's glasses on his eyes. Then he got her nightfown and put it on, next he got her night cap and put it on his head. Then he got into the bed and covered himself up.
After a while he heard a knock at the door. The wolf told the little girl to come in. When the little girl came in she wondered how strange looking her granny was. Before she had said the words the wolf leaped out of the bed. Then the little girl began to scream hr wather was cutting timber in the wood. When he heard the noise he ran in and killed the wolf. When he had the wolf killed the little girls granny jumped out the wolf's stomach again.
- Collector
- Micheál O Loinseach
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crannagh, Co. Laois
