School: Fairgreen
- Location:
- Belturbet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Mac Gabhann
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- (continued from previous page)dinner, as she did not live far from her mother''s house. She soon got tired doing so.
One day a fortune-teller came to the house and her mother told the fortune-teller the whole story. The fortune-teller told her to fry a half-a-dozen eggs and half-a-dozen slices of rashers and then fill it with as much potatoes as it would hold. The girl was to start eating as soon as he would come in. He would be astonished and would ask her if she would eat all that. She (wou) was to reply "Aye and more if I had it." At this he would get sick and soon afterwords die. She was to inherit all his riches.
All happened as the fortune-teller said. (and) When he got sick the doctor and clergy(continues on next page)
