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School: An Bóthar Buí (B.), Áth Treasna (roll number 16396)

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Boherboy, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Seán Ó Gealbháin
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    able to breathe through the hole; and if it required water it had only to chew the snow.
    The above story is true in every detail. I forgot to mention that this drift was near a steep bank against which the goat was sheltering when overtaken by the blizzard.
    So huge were the drifts that they were still to be seen in sheltered places in the month of May.
    Children, who delight to go barefooted in country places, used to enjoy themselves playing pranks. At the edge of a drift and then running out into the clear ground where the sun was shining brightly to warm their feet.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. frost and snow (~299)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Galvin
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Teacher
    Address
    Islandbrack, Co. Cork