School: Cloone (B.) (roll number 15442)

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   used pens or pencils long ago They always frame slates and for pens they used "goose quills."

   If in these encounters the young candidate for the honours of the literary scepter was not victorious, he again resumed his studies under his old preceptor with renewed vigour and becoming humility, but if he put the schoolmaster down, his next object was to seek out come other teacher whose celebrity was unclouder within his own range.

   If victorious he sought out another and more learned opponent, and if defeated he became the pupil of his conquer going night-about during his sojourn at the school, with the neighbourhood farmers sons, whom he assisted in their studies as a compen sation for his support. In this manner he preceeded a knight errant filled with a chivalrous love of letter.

   

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   James Duggan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drumdarkan, Co. Leitrim