School: Cratloe (C.)
- Location:
- Cratloe, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire Ní Shitric
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 115
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- One day a little boy was going along the road driving a donkey.
The donkey was very very slow no matter how loud the boy would shout the donkey would not go faster.
At last the boy was tired of shouting he broke a strong stick from a tree which was growing on the roadside and he began beating the donkey with it still he went no faster.
A priest cycling along the road passed them by and dismounting asked the little lad why he was beating the donkey “Don’t you know the donkey is blessed “ said the priest Our lord rode on a donkey when he was going to Jerusalem.
“I know that” said the little boy “ but if he had this one he would never arrive there.
- Informant
- Mrs J. Punch
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cratloemoyle, Co. Clare
