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School: Clashaganny (roll number 8051)

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Clashaganny, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Albert Flanagan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0252, Page 206

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  2. A Story of a Weasel that Once Lived in Cloonmuray

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    By the stories I have heard from the old people I think the weasel a very wise and good animal when treated kindly. Long ago there lived in the villge a man James cigins who used to have all his feeding stuff in a barn sometimes he noticed the bags cut and some of the meal scattered. He thought it was a rat that was causing the destruction and one evening he poisoned some bread and was taking it out to the barn when he saw a weasel coming towards the house the man then knew there were no rats around because the weasel kills all the rats, and he took the poison and instead he left some food every
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