School: Tobar Colmáin, Ráthluirc (roll number 8930)

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1. The Leipreachán (continued)

   

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   completed when he heard a rat-tat-tat inside one of the boxes. He opened it in haste and out hopped a leipreachan. The man seized him and demanded the crock and he explained to him that gold had gone out of circulation, but he would get for him what he had the courage to ask himself, and that was an increase of wages.

   Let me go for about five minutes says the leipreachan, and I will return soon with the means by which you get an increse in your wages. Off went the leipreachan and returned in less than two minutes with the key of the head managers private safe. Now the manager was just about leaving his office for the day when he suddenly remembered that a certain private letter in his safe should have been posted that evening at all costs. He searched for the key everywhere, but it was nowhere to be found. All the employees were called in to assist in the search for the key, and amongst them, the man who was too cowardly to ask for an increase of pay. They searched

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   Topics

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. neacha neamhshaolta agus osnádúrtha (~14,864)
         1. leipreacháin (~1,007)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maureen Danaher

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   An Daingean Láir, Co. Luimnigh

   Informant

   Thomas Walker

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   An Daingean Láir, Co. Luimnigh