School: Sraithíní (roll number 17145)
- Location:
- Sraheens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ní Dhuinnshleibhe
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- (continued from previous page)Last night about three weeks ago I received a letter of an old hags death and every tear that fell from my nose would set a mill going. I took a fit of running with my two chin boans in my pocket and my head under my arm until I met a man and son thrashing peas out of tobacco. One pay jumped over a twelve foot wall and killed a dead dog that was barking at a pop mark cat that was knitting a pair of stockings I again took a fit of runnig over banks of butter milk and bog holes of stirabout till I arrived at an inn where they were making a railway. I though I was working but I wasnt. I demanded my(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Clisham
- Gender
- Male
