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School: Kilbegnet (roll number 1327)

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Kilbegnet, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0261, Page 227

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    to say nothing about it. Danial went home with his five hundred cattle and the can of gold. Hundan and Dundan came to him and asked where did he get all the cattle and he said in the bottom of the Suck and he said "if I had help I would bring more." Then they asked him "where did you get the gold?" and he said "there was a war out in Russia and there is a great price for old hags to make gun powder." Hundan and Dundan brought their mothers on their shoulders up and down the street singing "Old hags for sale to make gun-powder" and the police came out and arrested them.
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    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT1535: The Rich and the Poor Peasant
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mattie Joe Beirne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dunamon, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Beirne
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dunamon, Co. Roscommon