School: Cromadh (C.) (roll number 9307)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Mhic Eoin
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“To become lost like this does not always require Jackie's light.”
(continued from previous page)half turned towards the gate again. When he faced the field a second time he found everything utterly unfamiliar. Where, he asked himself, was this field surrounded on three sides by woods?. He had no recollection of any such field though he had been reared amongst them. He wandered around, on and on and still came to no familiar landmarks, but as last got on to a public road. There he located his where-abouts, about three miles from the field in which he left his slips and he never could make out how he crossed the hedges between that field and the road where he found himself, nor could he remember trying to cross them. He came back to the field with the slips in it. Without any hesitation faced the slips and picked them up and had now no difficulty in locating the field and the three woods. He came home, his only fear now being that the breakfast would be over and he'd get a wigging first at home and then at school, and was coming near his house when - the Angelus rang for mid-day. He had been hours travelling around those fields, though he thought he had been but a short time.