School: Ballygunner (B.), Portláirge (roll number 619)
- Location:
- Ballygunnermore, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Conchobhar Mac Giolla Phádraig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0653, Page 8
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- (continued from previous page)sleep again. The fairy vanished. When the man woke in the morning he saw that there was not a rib of hair on his head. Immediately he returned all that he had found the day before. But it was no use. Never afterwards did any hair grow on his head.(3) Men were cutting hay one fine day in the parish of St. Nicholas. They came upon a nest of ↑ weasles. The mother weasel had gone away. To save them from the mowing - machine, the workmen removed the young ones to a place of safety. Soon the mother returned with food and failed to find her offspring where she had left them. Now everyone knows that the weasel has a poison spit. She went over to the nearby gallons of water and spat forth her poison, think-ing that the men had killed her young ones. But then she suddenly found them, returned to the water and completely discoloured it so that no one would be in any danger of being poisoned.
- Boat Strand is a(t) little seaside place about 12 miles from Waterford. In october 1915 during a frightful gale, the "Morning Star" was wrecked(continues on next page)
