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1. The Bull (continued)

   

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   and when he spread it on the ground he found on it food and drink fit for a king.
   Every day after, the stepmother sent out the boy without anything to eat, and every day he took the cloth out of the bull's ear and eat and drank his fill.
   After a good while the stemother began to wonder for the boy was improving instead of failing. So she went to the henwife and told her how she was starving her stepson and instead of failing he was getting fatter. So the henwife said he must be getting food somewhere, and to put up a hut near where he was herding and that she would watch him from it. So the hut was put up and the henwife stayed in it and saw the boy taking the cloth out of the bull's ear and eating and drinking off it. So she went back and told the stepmother that she found out that it was the bull that was feeding the boy. The stepmother said that the bull would have to be killed and she sent for the butcher to come to kill him the next day. The bull

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   James Murphy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   An Sonnach Mór, Co. Liatroma