School: Coill-Chéim (roll number 9044)

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1. Local Cures (continued)

   

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   Stone Bruises:- If you have a stone bruise on your foot walk in somebody else's shoes three times and the stone bruise will go away. Ring worm:- If you have the ring worm boil soot and salt and put it three different times on the sore. Boils:- If you have boils get a snail,cut him in two parts and rub them on the boils. Foul mouth:- A boy that never saw his father, get him to blow his breadth[?] on you and then you will have the cure yourself. Corns:- Get a raw onion or a raw barnack that grows on the rocks on the shore and apply it on top of the corn. Evil:- Get the seventh son or the seventh daughter of a family to rub their hands on it and you will get better. Hiccough:- Get someone to give you a shock and then you will get better in a minute.

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2. The Care of our Farm Animals

   

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   We have three cows, three calves, four heifers, three bullocks and a donkey, two cats and a dog, a canary, and a game cock. The cows names are Blue Boy, Tawney and Black Bess. When I am driving in and out the cows I say to them "Chaig Cullion mind your feet". The cow house is thatched [with] and has two windows and a door.

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