School: Drumraney (roll number 13571)
- Location:
- Drumraney, Co. Westmeath
- Teachers: Ml Mc Garry Alice Mc Garry
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- (continued from previous page)to ride her horse, so she that she could not get any one to ride him.
The small man said that if she would let him ride the horse he would win the race. So she let him ride the horse. Before he went out to run the race he asked a man for a bit of tobacco, the man said that half of it would him. So he got it and put it into his mouth. There was a great horse running against him. When they were just a bit away from the winning posts, as he was passing the other horse he spat the tobacco into the other horse's eye and put him off the course. The small man dressed in red won the race.
- Collector
- Peter Ham
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toorbeg, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- John Ham
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Toorbeg, Co. Westmeath
