School: Baile Thomáis, Gabhailín (roll number 15407)

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   bent in over the box she turned him into it and shut the lid on him. Then he had to stay there but there was a way of feeding him. He was to be back in England in two days time and he was not back even the third day. And then the gentleman asked the carpenter "Why is not my son back by now" Then the carpenter said to the gentleman "To tell you the truth sir you son will not return until we will return to Ireland" So the gentleman let them go home and they sent back his son. So after they coming home to Ireland they were working in a wood splitting big trees and they used to split them from end to end with two strokes of the hatchet and there were twelve more men working with them. And one day when the daughter-in-law went with the dinner her husband and her father-in-law were killed before her. Then the twelve men said to her to show them the way that they used to split the tree and she said she would that they should do what ever she would tell them. Then she said when she would split the timber half ways she would put a wedge in it and there were six men to go at one side of the timber and six at the other side and that they were to put their

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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