School: Carrigeencor (roll number 10826)
- Location:
- Carrigeencor, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mrs Annie Gillmor
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0200, Page 057
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- (continued from previous page)pick the thorns out of his head. While doing so a drop of blood fell on the bird's breast, and every robin has a red breast since.
- A number of men were employed working in a quarry. In this quarry the rocks had to be blasted. A robin had built her nest in a little opening in one of the rocks. The men had worked as far as the rock in which the robin's nest was. They held a consultation about the robin's nest. "Oh" said one of the men "Catch her and I'll pick out her eyes, and then she can't see where the nest is." "No" said another man. Catch her and I'll break her two legs, and then she won't hop in our way." "No" said a third "Give her to me and I'll break her wings so that she can't fly["]. Four blasts were set, and the men all went away a short distance from the quarry until the blasts would go off. Three went off and the 4th didn't. The men came back to the quarry and the 4th blast then went off. The man who said he'd pick out the robin's eyes was struck in the eyes and was blind for life. The second man who was to break the robin's legs got his own legs broken, and the third man got his arms broken.
- Collector
- Mrs Annie Gillmor
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
