School: Derryham

Location:
Derryhum, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
A. Ó Máirtín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0981, Page 053

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0981, Page 053

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  2. One time long ago there was a little house beside a lake. One day when the man of the house was working in the field, he saw a big cow coming out of the lake and she went up around the house and stayed there for a few weeks and in a couple of days after she came out of the lake she calved and the man of the house brought her in and milked her and fed the calf and kept her there for some time and when he let the cow and calf out he went out to milk her in the evening and she started to kick and spilled the milk and the man stopped milking her and in a couple of hours he saw the cow and calf going
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