School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
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- (continued from previous page)The rabbit is a smaller animal than the hare not as fast. It lives in a burrow in the side of a fence. Its food consists of grass, turnips and cabbage. The people that kill rabbits eat them or sell them. Its flesh is white like a chicken. Very nice soup is made from a rabbit.
An otter is another wild animal. It lives in water. It attacks the fishermen and often bites them. The people that go to kill it put cinders inside their socks for when it catches a grip of you he never loosens it until it hears the bone cracking.
- There are many wild animals in this district such as the fox, the hare, the rabbit the rat, the mouse, the squirrel and the badger
The fox makes his den in among stones and rocks. It stays in its den all day and it goes out at night for its food.
One night a fox came in to a farmyard It got into the henhouse through a window. It killed and ate two geese. When it tried to get out through the window it was too full and was not to get out(continues on next page) - Informant
- John Liston
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Meelick, Co. Clare
