School: Killyconnan (C.)
- Location:
- Killyconnan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Ní Ghabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 165
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- (continued from previous page)put it in sacks ready for the market. So next day I got my horse shod and the black-smith drove eight big nails in every shoe. When I was on my way to the market with a sack of oats on his back, I had to cross a river and a great big salmon got caught in the nails of the shoes pulling the horse into the river and breaking his back, so what was I to do. I looked around and seeing a sheep nearby I killed her and taking off her skin put it on my horse and sewed it on with briars and every year after I cut three bags of wool and had a fine crop of black- berries " Your a liar" said an old fishermen who was standing by, and you have told nothing but lies since you started. That is all I want, said the poor man, so the fisherman was burned instead of the old man, who(continues on next page)
