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School: Windgap, Thomastown (roll number 5698)

Location:
Windgap, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0852, Page 016

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  1. The Dog Minding the Tree

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    In olden times about eighty years ago a man named Comerford from Kilnaspic had a wake in his house on a cold winter's night. He sent two men to a certain tree to cut a bough of it. The two men gave hours cutting the tree and it was tightning the tree was.
    At last they looked up and saw something like a dog minding the tree on top. In the morning they went to the same tree and two cuts of a saw cut the bough.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Norris
    Gender
    Female