School: Radharc na Féile (roll number 14156)
- Location:
- Mainistir na Féile Thiar, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Tadhg Mac Coitir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0495, Page 089
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- (continued from previous page)which the horse gets hay. Some people that want to spare their hay put it up in a rack so as that the horse can only take out as much as she wants. If the farmer is giving oats to his horse he gives it to her in a pot. When the horse loses her shoes the farmer takes her to the forge and gets a new set of shoes. In the month of December a horse is generally clipped. Some horses have great instinct. Our horse would know if it is a stranger that is walking in the yard. If it is her master she cocks her ears & neighs.Hatching
About a dozen of eggs a hen generally hatches. While she is hatching great care must taken that she gets water every day & oats. A turkey hatches about twenty six eggs. In olden times the custom was to put the geese hatching under the dresser. The housewife makes the eggs as there laid & finds out which is the first egg laid or the last one that will come out first
