School: Dooroc, Drumlish (roll number 13438)

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   and say nothing about it.
   Next day he met Morrow beag and he told him he got a hundred pounds for his mother. Morrow beag went home talked to himself and said I will go home and kill my mother. The next morning he killed his mother and brought her to the market to sell her. He walked up and down the street saying "a dead woman for sale". The seargant came up to him and told him to get out of the town before he would be arrested. He went home crying I have my mother killed and I got nothing for her.
   The next night Morrow More was coming from some cousins place and it started to rain and he went into an old house where no one used to live in it. He lay down in an old trunk while the rain was going on, and twelve wild cats landed in with a piece of a cow in their mouths. They started to tell stories and the master cat said all the stories he had to tell was that the kings daughter was for death, and any one that would cure her would get her in marriage. He said that nothing would cure her only a bottle of water from the back of this house. Morrow More was listening to all this and he cure the princess

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Thomas Mollohon

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   12

   Address

   Kilmahon, Co. Longford

   Informant

   Mr John Lennon

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   70

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Kilmahon, Co. Longford