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School: Attymass B.

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Attymass, Co. Mayo
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P. Ó Flannghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0127, Page 448

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    blood. Wherever there is a rat round a house a weasel is a very good thing because he will kill the rats and suck their blood.
    There was once a rat and a weasel fighting and a man was passing by and he began to help the weasel. The rat took a bite out of his leg and next day he was going to the doctor on a side car with some other men on the car with him. He was telling them his story. When he came to the place where he was bit, the same weasel came out and jumped up on the car and started licking the man's leg and it was not so very long until he was alright again. Then the weasel told him to turn back his horse again home and he would be alright The man did what the weasel told him and went away happily.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph Hennigan
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Patrick Hennigan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballycong, Co. Mayo