School: Rath (roll number 5391)
- Location:
- Rath, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Miss Palmer
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0739, Page 045
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- Long ago there was a man in this parish and one day that he was going out to milk his cow he saw a cricket running along the cows back.
He took a tobacco box out of his pocket and put the cricket into it. He then shut the box and put it in his pocket.
That evening he was passing a certain widow's house and he heard the children talking inside. He went over to the window and listened and he heard one of them say:- "I dont know what is keeping my mother." Another of them(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Geraghty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Fearmore, Co. Westmeath
