School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)
- Location:
- Thomastown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Dubhlaine
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0576, Page 383
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According to the story there lived a poor woman and her four children on the side of the road in a small little house. One day they were going to eat their dinner and is what they had was a pan loaf and tea for the mother and her four children because their father was dead. Then they were just going to eat their dinner when a poor woman and her child came to the door coming looking for charity and a piece of bread for the child. Then the woman of the house told the poor woman and her child to come in and sit down and eat with them "Although I have only one pan loaf in the house and let it go as far as it will". The the seven of them sat down to the table. Then when they were finished and had enough eaten there was as much bread left as what they had eaten. The poor woman that came to(continues on next page)
