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School: Baile Glas (roll number 13654)

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Ballyglass, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Cáit Ní Rúis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0118, Page 23

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    A weasel is a very small animal. He eats all kinds of insects. He kills [?] fowl, and he sucks their blood, but he does not eat them. The weasel is a very sore animal. This is a story about a weasel.
    Once there was a man cutting hay, and he found a nest of young weasels. He put the weasels in another place. When the mother of the weasels came looking for them, she could not get them. She got the can of milk the man had in the field and spat into it. She
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      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sadie Reilly
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    Female