School: Johnswell, Kilkenny (roll number 3247)
- Location:
- Johnswell, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó Héigceartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0862, Page 485
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“Once upon a time there lived a farmer named Jack Bennan. He had about sixteen cows. Every morning he'd go out to milk the cows the cows would be milked.”
(continued from previous page)hare all round the field and could not catch it. The farmer said he would go to an other man who had two better hounds. So he brought the man with the hounds and they chased the hare allround the field and in the end the hare got tired and leaped into an old house. When the hare was leaping into the old house the hounds pulled the back out of her. When the farmer and the man with the hounds went into the old house they saw an old woman in a corner. They turned her up and she was bleeding(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Philomena Dowling
- Gender
- Female