School: Camross, Mountrath
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifernáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0826, Page 360
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“I shall never forget the night I spent listening to three famed story tellers...”
(continued from previous page)He was a cute little man of the labouring clan and was well fit to drown eels with cuteness. He said I was coming home one night from Robert England's across the moors. I came alright until I came into Jacob's currach when suddenly something like a rattlesnake came on and twisted and twined round my legs. I tugged and pulled and kicked until I got out of his clutches. "Maybe" said the little man it was one that St Patrick messed with the "clipe of his hazel stick" Ahem! said the Quack doctor.
I will now give as good a description as I possibly can of the quack doctor. he was a man of 6 feet in height and built in proportion. His fancy for a walking stick was a peeled white thorn varnished. He also carried his kit of tools(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Breen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rossnadough, Co. Laois