School: Morette, Portarlington (roll number 899)

Location:
Morett, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Elizabeth Finn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0835, Page 225

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  3. XML “Ghost Stories”
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  2. One dark winter's night a man was going home from rambling, he had to pass a graveyard on his way home. When he was drawing near the graveyard he began to think of all the ghost stories which his grandfather had told him. He was getting very much afraid. When he was passing the graveyard wall he saw a white object up on the ditch, he was very frightened and he turned and went back frightened and he turned and went back the way he had come with the hair standing on his head. When he stopped running he decided to go back and see what it was. On coming back to the wall the white object was there still. He went up
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