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School: Edraguil (roll number 11225)

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Edergole, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
C. Nic Philip
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0944, Page 284

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    He is an old man who goes around with a donkey and gathers rags, and bottles.
    Mollie Dowd.
    Carson,
    Dartrey.
    Twenty years ago pedlars were often seen in this district. They gathered rags, horse hair, and bottles. They sold tin basins, laces, pins and needles or gave them in exchange for the rags etc. The rags they sold for the manufacture of paper. Pedlars do not gather rags now as they would get no money for them as paper is made mostly from wood-pulp. The horse hair was sold to make brushes and the bottles were sold to the publicans. More often they
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