School: Kilmacoo, Avoca
- Location:
- Kilmacoo, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chosgair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0925, Page 319
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- (continued from previous page)people but none of them could tell what was the matter or what kind of a child it was.It was now drawing near Christmas, the turkey had laid and hatched out & the young turkey's were ready for the "Margadh Mór" or Christmas market. It happened that a travelling tailor was working in the house at this time making clothes for them. The farmer asked him if he would mind the house & child while he & his wife went to the market & the tailor said he would.The tailor was sitting up on a large table beside a window with legs crossed as usual & was working away. He noticed that as soon as the farmer & his wife left the yard the child stopped crying & to his great surprise it jumped up on the table in front of him & folded it's legs as he did, & commenced to talk & joke with him like a grown up peron. After a while it took down a fiddle that was hanging on the wall & played some of the finest jigs, reels, and hornpipes the tailor had ever heard. When it had played for a long time it put up the fiddle and stood up on the table & danced the hornpipe. The tailor had seen some of the finest dancers in Ireland dancing from time to time(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Macken
- Gender
- Female
