School: Dromin, Dunleer (roll number 6576)
- Location:
- Dromin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Ó Cathaláin
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- (continued from previous page)Why is a jail bird like a robin?
Because he has been robin.
Why is a boy with nobody like borrowed money?
Because he is alone (a lone)
As I went out my uncle Davis's gap I met my uncle Thomas I cut his trote I sucked his blood and I left his body easy?
A bottle of Stout.
- Cures
A Sty. Get ten thorns and bless yourself with them at the top of your eye to cure a sty?
Nettle sting. Rub cappog leaves to you for curing a nettle sting?
Warts. Rub caster oil to you, for curing warts?
Corn. Put iodine on, to cure a corn?
Burn. Get a piece of soap and rub it to you and say St. Lagarns to cure a burn?
Mumps. Wash yourself in holywater and bless yourself three time, to cure the mumps?
Wart. Rub a snail to a wart and then hang it on a bush and while the snail is withering the wart will be withering?
Burns. Cowdung is a cure for burns?
Mumps. To put a donkey's winkers on you and drive yourself out and in nine times of a pig sty to cure the mumps?
Bleeding eyes. Cobwebs on cuts to keep them from bleeding?(continues on next page)
