School: St. Mary's (B.), Droichead Átha (roll number 15125)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: A. Mac Uidhlinn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 449
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- This really happened. I seen the woman it happened to. One day an old woman came into her and asked for the loan of a can of milk and a can of meal for her children as they were very hungry. But the woman refused and said she hadn't it.
The old woman says then "What you have to-day you'll have less to-morrow and what you'll have to-morrow you'll have less the next-day and so on".
Then the old woman went to another woman and says she to her, "Have you the lend of a can of meal and a can of milk till to-morrow as the children are hungry".
The woman gave her it with a heart "What you have to day you'll have to-morrow", says the old woman to her, "and what you'll have to-morrow you'll(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brendan Mc Quillan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Old Hill, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mary Meehan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sampson's Lane, Co. Louth
