School: Allenwood
- Location:
- Allenwood, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 292
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- About a year ago this time last year I had a letter from my aunt in America telling me that a shower of old hags was going to fall, that the houses were going to be thatched with pancakes and the streets to be paved with gold that turkeys were to chew tobacco and swallows were to make their nests in old men's grey beards and cooled pigs were to be running around with a knife and fork stuck in their backs saying "Who will come and eat me". When I read this I took a fit of running(continues on next page)
