School: Swords (B.) (roll number 755)
- Location:
- Swords, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: A. Hamill
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- Care of the Feet
In former times people went in their care feet, people when they were working in the fields wore boots because the stones cut their feet but they felt the boots were very uncomfortable to wear. The people around our districts always wore boots except that some of the boys go barefooted in summer and autumn and they have strong and healthy feet. People who always wear boots feel it very hard to walk on stony roads.
If a person has a disease and another person washes his feet in the same water as he washed them in, the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Marks
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Occupation
- Pupil
- Address
- Drynam Road, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- George Stafford
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Drynam Road, Co. Dublin
