School: Collon (roll number 14579)

Location:: Collon, Co. Louth
Teacher:: Bean Uí Mhathúna

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brought in like the other man and they placed the hump, which they had taken from the first man on the top of his first hump, and so he returned home with two.

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“He said that while patching his trousers one evening by the fire a fox came in through the open door and snatched a hen which was picking on the floor.”

At Mt Oriel within view of Collon there lived a man by himself called Matt the Hatch, this old man used come into the village every evening and one day he told the following story:-

He said that while patching his trousers one evening by the fire a fox came in through the open door and snatched a hen which was picking on the floor, he jumped up to close the door throwing the trousers on the floor, while he was closing the door, the fox grabbed the trousers on the floor and threw them into the

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