School: Slane (C.) (roll number 4852)
- Location:
- Slane, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Josephine Cooney
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- When our Lord was going through Jerusalem every animal tree plant and everything bowed to Him except the poplar tree. It was too lazy and did not show any respect to the maker. Our Lord saw it and knew what it was after doing and said to it "You are very lazy and very disrespectful and from now you shall be always busy even on the calmest day your leaves will be always shaking and trembling." He said this because it was too lazy but now its leaves are always moving and shaking.
There is an old saying attached to this "always trembling like an aspen leaf."