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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 167

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    person who could get Hudden for them. The neighbours wanted to set him free, and they dressed him up in priests clothes. Then he went to the guards and said that if they would give him a hundred pounds he would get Hudden for them. They gave him the hundred pounds, and he told them follow him. They soon came to a bush, and Hudden said he was behind it. He told the guards go one side of it and he went the other side, and said "Good evening sirs Im off again." Then Hudden ran away and never was found again.
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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