School: Cnoc Uí Choileáin, Mainistir na Féile (roll number 10107)
- Location:
- Mountcollins, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Coileáin
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“Long ago there was an old woman in this parish who was noted for practising pishogues.”
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“There lived a farmer long ago, and he had a great many cows.”
There lived a farmer long ago, and he had a great many cows. Every morning the cows were milked before he drove them to the house. One morning he made up his mind that he would go and see what was happening to his milk. He took his gun with him to shoot if he saw anyone. He had no shot for his gun, but he found a crooked sixpence in his pocket and he put that into the gun. He went to the field where the cows were, and he saw nothing but a hare sucking a cow. He fired and struck the hare in the leg. A few days later a neighbouring woman felt sick. The doctor came and said her foot was injured. After doctoring it for a while a crooked sixpence came out of the(continues on next page)