School: Shrule (roll number 7795/7796)

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1. A Story (continued)

   “There was once a boy named Johnny Curtin a poor scholar.”

   

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   "its little I know about it beyond my father and mother." "John said the old man there is a treasure not far from here that belonged to the family and if you get it will make you and fifty more as rich as kings" "You know the old bush that is standing there called Scath-a-legaune close to the road upon a little bank of earth and stones" He told him to dig just six feet from it but the work must be done at the dead hour of night and not a word to be spoken to living man about it. When Johnny, woke that morning he remembered all his dream well. He paid no heed to it. The next night he dreamed that the old man came to him and spoke the very same words as before. He dreamed the third one after the other. The next morning he told Dick about it after breakfast

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ailbhe Ó Mártáin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   An Goirtín, Co. Mhaigh Eo