School: Walshestown (roll number 3245)
- Location:
- Walshestown North, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhuibhir
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- (continued from previous page)confined to bed for thre months.
Everyone who called to see him would ask him what happened him. "Dear me," he would say, "I was very lucky I was not killed. I was coming home from rambling when out leaped old Nick's father at the top of Hannon's hill. Off I goes as fast as I could and he after me until coming near the bottom of the hill. Then out leaps old Nick's mother and she put under me with a hand and a foot and you can see for yourselves when I am alive I am a lucky man"
