School: Carley (roll number 5332)
- Location:
- Crooked Wood, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Brigid Cooke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 320
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- (continued from previous page)have the cure of the running worm. There is a man in this district who can never put a worm on a hook because the worm dies as soon as he touches it.
- Tuesday & Saty are the "cross days of the week
No one begins work on Saty. If begun on Saty it will never be finished. No one remove to a new house on Saty - "Saturday's flitting makes a short sitting"
1st May is a "cross" day. No one lends anything on this date.
"Days that they skinned the Old Cow" March borrowed three days from April "Riabhach days" - Few travellers except "tinkers" now come. Occasionally a poor man or woman comes selling boot-laces, pins, Sacred Heart Badges etc. Long ago many came and they were very welcomed. Certain houses gave them lodging in the corner of the kitchen - bags of straw & old blankets were kept for that purpose. They sometimes carried their own bed-clothes in a huge bundle on the back.(continues on next page)
