School: Lios an Chairn (roll number 10390)
- Location:
- Lissacarn, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Liam Ó Fuaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0223, Page 056
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- Games I play. 8:3:1938
The ghost in the garden.
First the mother tells them to go out to gather sticks and the children come back they tell her that there is a ghost in the garden and she says there is not. And then she tells them to go out again and they say the same and she still say not. The children bring out their mother and she askes the ghost what do you want."I want a bag of sand" and the woman asks him what do you want whith a bag of sand. And he says "I want it to sharpen me knife" and he runs after the children and if he catches any of them he makes he is going to cut the head of them. When the children see him they be afraid of him. Hanna Fox
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- Hanna Fox
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