School: Gortloney (roll number 11978)
- Location:
- Gortloney, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Eoghan de Buitléir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0716, Page 213
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- (continued from previous page)on the floor. Then he wondered how his wife would get in, so he thought of a plan. He put the loaves on the floor for steping-stones for his wife to walk on. There was a goose hatching under the table. He took her out and put her on the spit and left her there until she was roasted. Then he thought that the eggs would get cold so he went in and sat on them himself. When he heard his mother and his future wife coming, He began shouting "Gae! gae! mother I'm a goose". So the girl would not marry him unless in a day's walk she met three men as big a fools as Jack. So off she started, She came to the first house and she saw a man pushing up a cow on the house to eat the oats that were growing on top of the tatch. She said, "there is one fool.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Butler
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortloney, Co. Meath
