School: Strang's Mills, Kilmacow
- Location:
- Strangsmill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Richard Rellis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 255
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- (continued from previous page)& went to the stream for the riddle of water. When the mouse filled the riddle the water streamed out through the holes in the bottom of the riddle. She tried & tried until she was almost exhausted & she began to despair. Some birds who were looking on took pity on the mouse and they began to cry out. "Put cow-dung Put yellow clay" & so on. The mouse head them & was puzzled for some time as to what the birds meant. At last it dawned on her & she mixed yellow clay with cow dung & she filled the holes in the bottom of the riddle with the mixture Then she tried once more to fill the riddle. This time owing to the mixture of cow-dung & yellow-clay the water did not escape. She brought the water to the coal-man. The coal man gave her coal. She gave the coal to the thresher-man and the thresher-man gave her straw(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Bridget Rellis
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny
