School: Na Corráin (roll number 9938/9)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Cormac Ó Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 212
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- As black as ink, as white as milk and it hops on the ground like hailstone. A magpie.
Marble walls lined inside with skin as white as milk.
There are no doors or windows in it and yet how is it that the thief breaks in and steals the golden egg?
It is in the rock but not in the stone, it is in the marrow but not in the bone, it is in the mire but not in the mud, it is in the river but not in the flood. The letter R.
It is in the car, it is no good to it and yet it can't go without it. The noise.
As I was running a thing I found and for to get it I searched around, and as I didn't get it I kept it all day and if I get it I kept it all day and if I got it I would throw it away.
A thorn.
- Collector
- Con Hickey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr Dan Hickey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Currans, Co. Kerry
