School: Urbal (roll number 13874)
- Location:
- Urbal, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gerald Kelliher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 521
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- (continued from previous page)the can and spilled the milk.
The man concluded she poisoned the milk and that for fear he would drink it, she spilled it.
- Once there was a man who had been married only a short time. He was very despondent and would not talk to his wife. A neighbouring woman came to the house and she said "she'd take talk out of him." Out she went, caught a rooster, plucked all the feathers off him and let him run through the kitchen. The man opened his eyes, in astonishment, at the sight. He began to laugh heartily and said:- "Dearc an coileach."
- Informant
- Francis Earley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Eden, Co. Leitrim
