School: Empor (roll number 941)
- Location:
- Emper, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Gallagher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 033
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- Once upon a time a man was living beside the river Inny in a little house and garden.
He sowed nothing but oats in the garden.
He used to keep a lot of hens, and feed them with the oats.
When he died a big black dog came in and tried to eat the man.
The people that were in the house killed the dog, and berried him under a bush.
Some nights the dog begins to cry and the cry would(continues on next page)
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