School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. O' Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 151
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- (continued from previous page)"Hush, hush, hush, the black is going to be milked" and when she was milked she knocked the bucket and the fairies got all the milk.
- Here is another story about milking. There was a man one time in this district and it is said that he could take milk from the cows. He could turn himself into a hare. One day the man who owned the cow saw the hare sucking on the cow and he got his gun and shot the hare in the forehead. The hare ran over the field and the man followed in hot pursuit. The hare ran on until he came to a house and he went in. The man followed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Natty Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
