School: Baldoyle (B.)
- Location:
- Baldoyle, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: M. Ó Hannracháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0791, Page 224
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- (continued from previous page)and took out the square peice of paper which was a ten shilling note. Another story is told about the robin. On Good Friday when Our Lord was dying on the cross a robin came up to Him and tried to pull pull the thorns out of His head. In its efforts a drop of blood fell on its breast and from that day to this the robin has a red breast
Here is another story about the swallow. One day God called a meeting with the birds. The serphent did not turn up to the meeting and so God put him out. The serphent got jealous of the swallow so he crawled up a tree and waited for the swallow. When he was just past the tree the serphent(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pádraig Ó Catháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dublin Street, Co. Dublin
