School: Gowna
- Location:
- Scrabby, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Hugh Murray
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0986, Page 086
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- The rules of Luck and Bad Luck were so numerous and so well known in general that any individual venture of any sort that did not succeed were analysed carefully by the doer or those concerned and in all cases the points of failure were carefully traced to some unlucky slip that was taken while the venture was in progress.
It was said thus "I knew it would fail because he did a thing that I always hears the old people say was a very unlucky thing to do." That was always the last word.(continues on next page)
