School: Corraslira
- Location:
- Corraslira, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhláin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 063
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Corraslira
- XML Page 063
- XML “A Funny Story”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)and a saucepan and he sat down at the doorstep beside the boiling pot and he began to read his paper.
So after a while here the pig comes along and put his head in the door and the man took a saucepan of the boiling water and flung it at the pig and hit him between the two eyes. "Now", he said, "take that you anyway."
The old [pig went away and with the cold and hunger he forgot all about it. And a few hours after that here the pig comes along the old man gave him another and the poor old pig was all burned. But after all poor Dick read his paper with comfort.
- Collector
- Cait Brady
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drinaun, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Thomas Brady
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drinaun, Co. Roscommon
