School: Ballyvaldon (roll number 10792)
- Location:
- Ballyvaldon, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0885, Page 256
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- (continued from previous page)This is another story of 'Profit'
There was a neighbour called Darby Larry who one morning came on a woman skimming the dew in a certain field + at the same time crooning a tune in Irish. Darby answered with another rhyme in Irish also. Then he said "Lets go halves" "No, take all" she said + went off. Miss O'Connor doesn't know the rhymes.
- The following are local curesToothache . Put a frog alive in your mouthDiphteria . Put the child under the donkey's body three timesWarts . Get a paper + a stone. Put the paper on the stone + rub the wart on the paper and throw all away. The first person who touches the stone will get the warts and they will leave you Whooping Cough . Boil a frog and mix sugar with it + drink the juiceSore Throat . Drink the juice of dandelion
