School: Killeen, Granard (roll number 13752)
- Location:
- Killeen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Ó Duibhgeanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 475
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him The boy said it was easily done.
Next day he got a pet rabbit and when the man was turning his horses the boy let out the rabbit and the man dropped the reins and ran after the rabbit and when the boy got his chance he got the horses and away with him then the ploughman ran down to the king and said the horses were taken and he saw nobody taking them.
Next day he ventured to do the second thing he got a quart of whiskey and pretender he was asleep in the yard and the jockeys went out and got the whiskey and drank it and they fell asleep and the boy went and got the horses and the jockeys said they never left the stable.
He went to a graveyard and opened a grave and took a dead man out of the grave and put the dead man against the window and when the king saw him he let a shot and the boy let him fall and he ran away and the king went out(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mollie Monaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballymore, Co. Longford
