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School: Tamney (Robertson)

Location:
Tawny, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Mrs Kyle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1090, Page 339

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    they fell into it.
    Mother: You will get no more?
    Boy: Well I will fight for them”
    Then he begins to fight for them.
    He gets all the chickens from the mother then he runs after the mother and catches her too.
    Then he pretends that he is killing the chickens then he roasts them on the fire and eats them.
    He says some of them are rotten and others are good and generally he says that the mother is also rotten.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sarah Jane Thompson
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12