School: Bohermeen (roll number 3115)
- Location:
- Bohermeen, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Aindrias Mac Gabhann
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- (continued from previous page)I'm so smart that i could catch every one and bring them back to you in the sack."
"Upon my word" said the king. I cannot tell who I'll give the wood to. I'll tell you I'll give it to the laziest.
"Well Im so lazy said the eldest that if you left me at the crossroads I would not stir till the cars and traffic had made bits of me."
"I'm lazier said the second". If you put me lying in a shed with a hole in the roof and a soot drop falling down, I'm so lazy I would not till it burned the eye out of my head"
"Im so lazy" said the youngest that if you put me lying against a rick of turf and set the rick on fire I would not move till I was a cinder.
"Dear me" said the king "I cannot tell who will own the wood.
At the same time he drooped dead. The prophecy was fulfilled. He was taken and buried(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Gibney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bohermeen, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Tommy Gibney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bohermeen, Co. Meath
