School: Coratillon
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- Teacher: Michael O' Beirn
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- (continued from previous page)red, when people see him.
He is supposed to be friendly. - 3rd Story.Once, a man caught a lepireachan, and he asked him, where would he find a crock of gold, and the lepireachan said
'' under a bush '', showing him a bush, under which he would get it. The man tied a red rag around the bush,so that he would remember it. When he arose in the morning he went out to dig up the gold but all the bushes in the field were tied with red rags. The man did not know what was the one he sought.Stories like these are common all over the country of leipreachans tricking human beings. The leipreachan's usual(continues on next page)