School: Yellow Furze
- Location:
- Yellow Furze, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Leamhain
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- (continued from previous page)clothing and she is dry again.
Once around Christmas this year - she got a bad cold. The P.P. sympathised with her when she called to his house but she said in a voice hoarse with sore throat "I'll get rid if it where I got it - on the road" and she did.
It is said she was a teacher in her early days.
She shows little sign of her education if so, except in her apt sagings. For example, one day a little girl, named Power annoyed her and she said at once "It is not the first time a "Baby Power" caused trouble.
I have often heard that she trades in clothes which she gets from kind friends and disposes of again to poorer people.
She carries them all on her person so that the purchaser has the advantage of seeing the coat on a "mannequin" as well as of having it "ready aired" and comfortable.
(by my house) Once while passing by my house she came in and asked my(continues on next page)
