School: Béal Átha na Muice (roll number 14862)
- Location:
- Swinford, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Dominick Caron
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0122, Page 334
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- (continued from previous page)him and she took the awl. Till that time a stab of an awl was very bad and an needle's stab was no harm but from that time on it was the other way about.
- At Our Lord's time all the animals and birds and insects were able to talk as well as a person. So when the Jews were searching for Him they met a cricket and a wasp on the road; and they asked them if they saw Our Lord passing. As it happened He was only just after passing and the wasp said "Indiú Indiú" meaning that he passed that day. The cricket anyway did not want Him to be caught and it said "Indé Indé" meaning that he passed yesterday and at the same time trying to put the Jews off the track. On that account(continues on next page)
