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School: Teampall Mhuire

Location:
An Carbad Beag, Co. Mhaigh Eo
Teacher:
Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0143, Page 218

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    (continued from previous page)
    He had carefully secured a few live mice in boxes with a piece of thin wire attached to their legs. When the King called on him to show how nature was more powerful than the training of these cats.
    Then he took out a box and let one of the mice out on the table.
    The cats began to glare at him but did not give up their post. He pulled and jerked the mouse about on the table but not until he let up the second, which he pulled and jerked about, did the cats fire the candles away and plunge after the mice.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT0217: The Cat and the Candle
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tessie Rogers
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    An Ráth Bhán, Co. Mhaigh Eo
    Informant
    Michael Rogers
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    An Ráth Bhán, Co. Mhaigh Eo