School: Strang's Mills, Kilmacow

Location:
Strangsmill, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Richard Rellis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0845, Page 300

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  1. Monday for health
    Tuesday for wealth
    Wednesday the best day of all
    Thursday for losses
    Friday for crosses
    & Saturday no luck at all,
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  2. In the village there lived a hunchback. This was a very cheerful fellow and he was always whistling and singing while running errands or working for the neighbour's. One night he happened to be passing a fort and he heard beautiful singing inside. He listened for a while entranced by the music. At last he could contain himself no longer and he burst into a song himself. On the moment the music inside the fort stopped, and the hunchback nothing daunted kept on singing. The faries all trooped
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