School: St Boden's, Culdaff

Location:
Culdaff, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 259

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  1. Once upon a time there were some weasels eating a man's stack of corn. One day the man saw them eating the corn and he killed one of them. And after that one of the weasels came into the house every night when the man was in bed and sucked the blood from his fingers.
    So the man went about and asked everybody what would he do with this weasel and "everybody that he asked" would not tell him and he did not know what to do.
    So at last he thought of a plan himself. He got a gun and
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Long
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Rose Long
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    46
    Address
    Laraghirril, Co. Donegal