School: Errew G.N.S. (roll number 13261)
- Location:
- Errew, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Brígid Nic Eoin
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- (continued from previous page)child or was he like that when he was born. She told him that he was a fine healty child when he was three years old but one Monday morning when she got up she found him spent and worn like he is now.
She went out again working and the child in the cradle began roaring again with the hunger. She came in again and put down a pot of poridge.
The man was looking on all the time. When it was ready she began to feed him with a spoon and before she finished the child in the cradle swallowed the last bit of it.
The man told the mother that it was not her own child(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
