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School: Cormeen (roll number 16132)

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Cormeen, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Brian T. Ó Dubhláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0707, Page 166

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    the guards shouted at him. Then he stood and waited for them, and they asked him what he had in the bag, and he said the same as before.
    Hudden said that if they would give him a hundred pounds he would give them the birds, and the guards said they would give him a hundred pound the right way with their battons. Then Hudden took to his heels again, and soon he came to a lane. He saw a gap going into a field, and he went out on it, and hid behind a ditch.
    The guards could not find him, and they said they would give a hundred pounds to the
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    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT1535: The Rich and the Poor Peasant
    AT1539: Cleverness and Gullibility
    AT1542: The Clever Boy
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Smyth
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumaneber, Co. Meath
    Informant
    John Smyth
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumaneber, Co. Meath