School: An Dubh-Chearn (roll number 9534)

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1. Bird-Lore (continued)

   

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   to the same nest. The cuckoo builds no nest. The robin builds her nest in hedges or in mossy banks. It is said the reason why the robin has a red breast is that when our Saviour was hanging on the Cross she tried to pull a nail from His Head and in doing so His Blood stained her breast

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2. The Banshee

   

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   This is a story which Hugh Murray Kinkeen Ballinamore told me about the Banshee. When he was a boy about fifteen years of age. He was having a walk one evening. It was in the Summer and about eight o'clock in the evening. As he went along the road he heard a cry like the sound of a cat and then he saw coming towards him what he thought looked like a cat. As it came nearer to him

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