There was a servant girl one time and she worked for a rich hard-hearted woman who never gave charity to anyone.

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Gleann Fleisge  [duchas:4712620]

There was a servant girl one time and she worked for a rich hard-hearted woman who never gave charity to anyone. The girl used to give milk to a poor widow with six children, and she used to keep a bit of her own dinner for them also.

The woman found this out and she sacked the girl. So the next morning there was a rat in every milk crock and they gave the milk to the calves and all the calves went mad. The next morning there was a rat in every milk crock they gave the milk to the pig and all the pigs went mad. The next day the same thing happened and she put the milk in the tea and they all went mad at the table.

She went to the priest she told him all. He asked her did she ever give any charity. No she said. Haven’t ye a servant girl said the priest she’s gone said the woman, why snaps the priest. Oh she used to give away things behind my back say’s she. The priest

Gleann Fleisge  [duchas:4712621]

went to the girl and he asked her what did she give away. I never I never gave anything away only a drop of milk to the Widows children and a bit of my dinner. So he told her to go back and the old woman, and the place would be hers when the old woman would die.

So she went back and it was not long until the old woman died. The girl had all for her charity. When the old woman was dead she used to come back every night. The girl told the priest, he told her to sell the place, she sold the place. She gave money to the priest for the good of the first owner, she gave money to the widow to rear her orphans and only kept her own due for herself.

Name: Anne Shine 11½ yrs Killaha
Name: Stephen Shine 50 yrs Killaha.