School: Cor na Muclach (roll number 14470)
- Location:
- Cornamucklagh North, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Annie Ryan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 165
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- (continued from previous page)The servant girl saw him put the lard under the barrel and she went and stole some of it and put it under a barrel for herself. She saw St. Martin lifting the barrel after a few days and saw a lot of young pigs run out from under the barrel.
She went to her own barrel then and lifted it and out rant a lot of rats and mice, that is how the pigs, rats, and mice first came, and that is what the servant got for her stealing.
"Easter Sunday"
Easter Sunday is one of the moveable feasts. It does not dall on the same date evert year, but it is the next Sunday to Palm Sunday.
The people eat more eggs on that day than on any other day.
It is said that when the sun is rising that morning it dances with joy for Our Lord rising from the dead.
He was put to death on Good Friday and buried that day, and the Jews rolled a big heavy stone to the mouths of the tomb, that took a lot of men to roll it.
The Jews killed a cock that night and broke all his bones and put him in a pot and put a big fire under it and they said(continues on next page)
