School: Ballyleague (roll number 5973)
- Location:
- Ballyleague, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Patrick O' Dowd
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- (continued from previous page)the cat. The next day, he told the cat that he would bring him to the shoemaker to get a pair of boots for him. The cat aggreed and Cormac put him into a bag. He set out to meet the two men with the dogs, but he told the cat that he was going to the shoemaker. He met the men and they said to him What is in that bag" he said "a bottom of yarn".
The men said "we must see what is in it". The cat whispered from the bag "stick to that Cormac." After a while, Cormac let the cat out of the bag and the black hound(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moher, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- John Corcoran
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killattimoriarty, Co. Roscommon
