School: Skerries (St. Patrick's : Girls) (roll number 16333)
- Location:
- Skerries, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Caitlín Cadhla
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0784, Page 201
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- (continued from previous page)The hawk is a very cruel bird because it goes to the other birds nests and kills the birds' and eats them and sometimes eats some of the big birds also.
The birds have speech of their own. There isa very old saying that when the birds hatch their eggs and the young birds are about three weeks old they say.
"Mother, Mother, let me fly," and the Mother says, "birdie, birdie wait a little longer until the little wings are stronger.Doreen Stapleton
22nd February 1938.
- Collector
- Doreen Stapleton
- Gender
- Female
