School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál de Búrca
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- Extracting of thorns.
A foxe's tongue is very useful for extracting a thorn that is too short to be caught by any other article.A Sty.
When a sty comes on a person's eye nine thorns are picked off a gooesberry bush and are pointed to the sty. This is done nine mornings in succession and on the last morning ten are picked and this tenth one(continues on next page)