School: Rochfortbridge (Convent of Mercy) (roll number 14603)

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   One day he was going across the bog, and for three months he had not got any food and his feet was falling from under him with the hunger.
   Suddenly he heard a voice calling him. He turned around and standing behind him as a little man. He asked him what was wrong and the poor man said he was hungry and had no money. The little man gave him a halfpenny and told him to go home and dig until he found another coin like it.
   The poor man went home and dug until he nearly collasped. He said to himself I will dig one more sod and if its not in this I will discontinue my task. At last he found his long earned halfpenny. He put it in his pocket as he was told and the next morning when he awoke his pocket was full of gold.
   He buried one half of it and kept the other half. When the half was used he set out to find his other half, but no, he could not find it.
   During his task the little man appeared to him and told him that he would have to dig a thousand more spade fulls, but the man was exhausted and would dig no more, so he never found his fortune.

   

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Helen Slevin

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Rochfortbridge, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Thomas Fagan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   92

   Address

   Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath