School: Nutgrove (roll number 10126)

Location:
Mullagh, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Emily Ní Aonghusa
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    when the children are going around for about six times they must take the pipe out of the woman's mouth and then she must stand up and say "Who took my pipe, and the first child must say, "Next my neighbour" until the woman comes to the last one, who must say, "Under my feet," and she must lift up her feet and she then says, "It is not there, and then the woman says to the first child who is supposed to be the monther. That one day she went out in the garden and cut her leg, and she went to the doctor and the doctor said that she could got some of her chickens to make her strong, then she tries to catch some of her flock. The woman then boils them, and she tastes them, and orders the nice chickens to the glass case, and she tells the ugly ones to go out to the pigs.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maura Mc Mahon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Creeves, Co. Limerick