School: Piercetown (B.) (roll number 4990)
- Location:
- Piercetown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Maitiú Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0879, Page 320
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- The fox is a very clever animal. Stories connected with his doings are always amusing. One winters night many neigbours were gathered together around a log in a farmers house. The talk came about fox hunting. "Well" said one old farmer, the fox has certain virtues of his own. I knew a poor widow, who had the finest flocks of geese, ducks, turkeys and hens in the country. The covert was close by, and although she was a widow and the fox knew it, he never touched a feather on the fowl. There they were, crowing and cackling and sailing over the pond under his nose and he never at them. But one winter came in very cold, and the country was snowed up all around, and the fox got hungry. One night he went to the widow's yard and took away one of her finest hens.
When she discovered her loss she was angry.
The weather cleared up again and one morning when the widow came out to count her chickens, she found she had to more than the right number. "Well she said to herself "those are'nt mine". Just then she looked up and there(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Cullen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killillane, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Cullen
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
