School: Moyne (C.) (roll number 13990)

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1. Churning (continued)

   

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   he used to go to a well and every smoke he saw rising from the chimneys he would say - "From all the houses that I see may half the butter come to me". When he churned during the following year he used to have the full of a very big pail of butter and only a small quantity of milk to churn. Some people nowadays would not let a man light his pipe with a coal at the fire while they would be churning as he would bring away the luck when he would bring out the coal in his pipe.

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   “We have names on our horse and pony.”

   

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   We have names on our horse and pony The horse frightens at things on the road. There was a man in this district called John Duffy, Moyne He had a horse and he called him the High Flier The horse turned wicked and the man could not fodder him He put him in the stable and kept him there for 7 1/2 years and threw fodder to him with a pitch fork.

   

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