School: Rahugh (roll number 12905)
- Location:
- Rahugh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Maonghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0732, Page 230
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - When we are calling the horse we say, "Pew," and when we are telling him stand we say, "We Paddy" When we are driving him we say, "Hop-off Paddy." We fodder the horse both morning and evening. We give him hay and oats in the morning and we give him hay, raw-mangols, and a drink of water in the evening. We cut the horse's hair with a horse-clipped. When we cut off all the hair we call it a, "clean clip." When we cut only as far as the breast we call it, "trace-high."
When we are calling the donkey we say, "Come on and when we are driving we say, "blick, blick."
When we are calling the pig we say, "Husha, Husha." When we are calling the calf we say, "Suck, Suck."
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