School: Brosna (B.) (roll number 13018)

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1. Potato Crop (continued)

   

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   When the potatoes are ripe they are ploughed out and picked by the women. They they are pitted. The pit is made on the back of the ridge. The potatoes are piled upon each other. Then they are covered with rushes and left that way for about a week. After a while they are covered with earth and left there for the winter.

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2. Local Songs

   “The pension having reached us caused our hearts to throb,”

   

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   Local Songs
   This song was composed when the pension was first given to the people.
   I
   The pension having reached us caused our hearts to throb,
   For fear we would be cut off or weekly sum five bob,
   In crowds they did assemble outside the courthouse door,
   So receive their weekly pension which they never saw before,
   II
   The first one that I noticed of the truth to, you will tell,

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