School: Sgoil Naoimh Conaill, Na Gleanntaí (roll number 15467)
- Location:
- Glenties, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Cathal Mac Duibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1051B, Page 15_008
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- (continued from previous page)said to his wife, "A pound for every head of cabbage in the garden". He meant that for every day she boiled a head of cabbage she should cook a pound of meat too. But when the man was gone the wife collected a large ball of cord and tied a pound of meat to every head of cabbage in the garden. So as no person watched the garden, dogs came in hundreds and ate all the meat. When the husband came home he was very angry and had to think of some other safe-guard against starvation. He made up his mind to lay aside a sum(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Séamus Ó Domhnaill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glenties, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Gracie Flaherty
- Gender
- Female
