School: Cluain (C.) (roll number 15443)
- Location:
- Cloone, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Bean Uí Sholamháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0222, Page 243
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- (continued from previous page)of pearls to the favourite child, but her horror knew no bounds when on speaking to this girl on her return. She saw dropping from her mouth not the glittering pearls but ugly toads.
This awful penance proved not only to the lazy girl, but to her mother that laziness and want of courtesy bring their own punishment in their train If the lazy, ugly, sister had been as kind and thoughtful as her younger sister she too would have earned the old womans reward of pearls.
- Collector
- Bridie Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloone, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Peter Carroll
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
