School: Tullamore (St. Brigid's)
- Location:
- Tullamore, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Sheehy
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Warts
Warts may grow on different parts of one's body and even on the bodies of animals and on plants, trees and even on vegetables.
A wart is a form of a dreaded disease called cancer.
My mother told me many ways of curing warts.
One of the ways she told me was to get washing soda and break it up in pieces. Then get one spoonful of butter milk and mix them up. Then put the mixture on a piece of cloth and put it on the wart and a few mornings afterwards the wart would be gone.
An other way(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Dowling
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tullamore, Co. Offaly
