School: Woodland (roll number 8464)

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   Willie Hatrick is a good diver.
   Willie Hatrick is a good runner. He caught a rabbit by running after it. He was walking along the side of a field one day when he saw a rabbit. He ran after it an caught it by the tail.

   

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2. Local Heroes

   

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   There lived in Rosemount, Letterkenny about twenty years ago a well known ragman called John Love. It was known that on several occasions he wheeled a barrow from Letterkenny to Derry the weight of his barrow being fifteen hundredweight. On one occasion he was fined for drawing this enormous weight. a man lived at Crieve, Letterkenny, called Martin. He left Letterkenny about nine oclock in the moonlight. He walked to Dublin, did his business and returned on foot within three days.

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eileen Boyle

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Carnamogagh Lower, Co. Donegal

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   A man named Matthew McMahon, who formerly lived in Glenallen could carry three hundred weight of oat-meal up stone steps when he was only seventeen.
   Mrs Joseph Boyle of Castlewray could mow an acre and a half in one day.

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