School: Caddlebrook (roll number 10642)

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   Once upon a time there lived in Killaster a boy whom the people used to call Patsy amadhat did he see án and the reason they called him that name was because everything they put him doing he was sure of doing it wrong. He used to work for the people around the place for 2d and 6d a day.
   This day late in the evening he was in the field picking potatoes and he heard the tapping of a hammer under a bush that was near him in the field. He went over to the bush to see what was the cause of the noise. What did he see but a Leipreacan: sitting under the bush making shoes. Patsy caught him and would not let him go until he would show where the money was. The Leipreacan begged of him to let him go. At last he brought Patsey over the field a bit and he stuck his awl in the ground when he pulled it up a daffodil burst up and the Leipreacan told him to get his spade and dig there and he would get the money and then he disappeared. He broke the leaves of the daffodil in this way he would know it when he would come back. So when he came back the whole field was covered with daffodils. He kept hunting

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maeve Conry

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Killaster, Co. Roscommon