School: Drong (2)
- Location:
- Drung, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Fháinín
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- (continued from previous page)scallops for thatching. He went towards the fort and saw just what he wanted growing on the ring of the fort. He began to cut them, and as he cut them he threw them on the ground behind him. Finally when he thought he had sufficient cut, he was going to gather them up. To his surprise he could not get one of them. When he was going to the entrance, he beheld the scallops placed neatly and tied in two bundles, one on each side. He got such a fright that he ran home and told the old man. He told him he should not have cut them on the fort, and that it was the "wee folk" who took them.
- There are many cures for rickets.
Some of them are :-
The child that has the rickets is brought to the forge of the man that has the cure. The child is set on the anvil and the man(continues on next page)
