School: Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10956)
- Location:
- Castleisland, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Céin
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- (continued from previous page)10. What has its heart in its head.
A head of cabbage.
11. As I went out a slippery gap, I met my uncle Davy; timber toes and iron nose, and upon my word he would frighten the crows!
A gun.
- Sore Eye
Take the herb and the daisy and squeeze out the juices from them. Put the juice into a bottle containing milk from a cow which has just calved, and place in cold water to set for three days. Wash the sore eye with the mixture as the sun is setting and after fifteen hours the eye is supposed to be cured.Ulcerated WoundBreak up sorrel, as many apples as would give you a quarter pint of juice. Mix the broken sorrel and the apple-juice and put to the wound.(continues on next page)
