School: Crowenstown

Location:
Crowinstown Little, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
M. Ní Bhriain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0724, Page 180

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    she ripped him open, and found all her children still alive. Then she ordered the goats to collect stones, and she put them into his stomach, and sewed him up again with a needle and thread, and then went home happily with her children.
    When the wolf awoke and raised himself up on his legs he felt very thirsty. He went to a brook for a drink, but the heavy stones made him lose his balance, he fell in, and sank beneath the water
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  2. A gentleman named Cook once lived near Mullingar in the townsland of Cooksborough.
    He was a man of great wealth, and gave a great amount of employment in the district, but he was a man
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Heffernan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    13
    Address
    Delvin, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    John Heffernan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    66
    Address
    Delvin, Co. Westmeath