School: Abbeyleix (South) (roll number 14260)

Location:
Abbeyleix, Co. Laois
Teacher:
Mrs Galbraith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0831, Page 330

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  1. A woman who had about six cows used to get only about two pounds of butter off her churn every week.
    Some distance away there lived another woman who had one cow and she used to have about twenty pounds of butter off her churn every week.
    How it happened was the woman who had one cow collected her cream and at the churning day she went to the river early on the morning of May and kept saying "All to me, All to me". Then she would go home
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