School: Robertson (roll number 12276)
- Location:
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Liam Ó Morchadh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1084, Page 127
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- There was a doctor in town who once attended a patient which was very dirty.
The doctor asked her mother had she anybody drowned belonging to her. Because you are afraid to use the water.
- Collector
- Mary Dobson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- Mrs Dobson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
- An old tramp and his wife and were going along the road and the woman had a small bag of oaten meal on her back when they came to the budge the left it down and she told her husband to watch it. he accidently pushed it into the water and when his wife came back he said mary your porridge is a bit thin.
