School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

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   he told her that his father was sending him to town to sell the skin and bring him home the skin and the price of the skin. Then the girl asked him "Will you sell it to me" and he said he would. Then she took the sheep skin into the house and she sheared off all the wool off the skin and she paid him for the well and she gave him the skin with it. Then when he went home to his father, his father said to him "You sold it to-day and who bought it from you." Then the son said "That girl living below there bought it from me." So the father said to him "you have learned a lesson in the finish." Then the father said to himself it would be a good match to get that girl and his son married as he thought he was his son. So they were married and she went to live with himself and his father. So the father and the son worked around building and doing carpentering. And they built a grand castle in Ireland and an English man heard tell of it. Then the English man came over to Ireland to see it and he liked it so well that he asked for the men who built it. So he was told about the carpenter and his son. So he took them over to England to build another castle there like the one they

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   AT0875: The Clever Peasant Girl

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick O' Dowd

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Moatquarter, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mrs O' Donnell

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   76

   Address

   Moatquarter, Co. Tipperary