School: Curry (C.) (roll number 12067)
- Location:
- Curry, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chaomháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0636
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- An Oyster-catcher went one day to the shore and killed a crab and if it had not been for the flow-tide he would have killed seven. He stood on a little stone and broke his leg.
He stood on a large rock and the waves broke over the top of it. He shouted to a seagull who lived on the other side of the loch.
"Are you in sister of my mother, Yes"
answered the seagull "For what purpose, for what purpose"
"To shape a knee-bandage for somebody for somebody"
"Though you are in great necessity, I cannot, I cannot.
Will you not come through the air to comfort me, to comfort me?
The seagull came through the air from the East and she shaped a knee bandage for the oyster-catcher, and then asked for the loan of his swimming gear for she wanted to visit her sister who lived on the other side. The oyster catcher was in great doubt in great doubt not caring to refuse(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Woods
- Gender
- Male
