School: Cloonagh Boys' National School
- Location:
- Coolrawer, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: P. O Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0170, Page 0145
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- (continued from previous page)the people would steal butter and milk by magic.
1) Once upon a time there lived a man who had but one cow, and one morning when he went out to milk her he saw a clock running up her "Elder", he took out his tobacco box and put the clock into it.
Then he went to milk the cow but he got no milk, that evening he was passing along a widow woman's house, and he heard the children talking inside, the youngest one said, "I dont know what's keeping my mother", says the second, "If she's shot she'll come back", says the third, "If she's drowned she'll come back", says the fourth, "Ah but if she's burned she'll never come back".
The minute the man heard that he ran home and threw the tobacco box in the fire with the clock in it and ever since he got the milk from the cow.
2) There was another man who had a servant boy, and when the boy was digging potatoes one day a woman came to him and said, "did yere "Maoleen" cow calf yet". "The boy said(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Fleming
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mary Brett
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Cloonlaughil, Co. Sligo
