School: Belturbet (B)
- Location:
- Belturbet, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Mc Govern
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 314
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- (continued from previous page)a cow. A horse eats short grass and is much better fed than any of the other animals, because it gets oats every day while anything else gets only hay.
- When a person got hydrophobia they were smothered. The people who got it went mad and suffered a lot. There was no cure as the people that got it were killed. Here is the story of how it was got.
Long ago one of my ancestors was bitten by a mad dog and he went out (out) on the mountains. At last he came to a lake and he stayed there to (the) pray that he would (got) get better.
He was there for a while when he hard something in the reeds of the lake. He looked down and he saw a dog with a paper in its mouth. The dog put the paper in the ground and went back.
The man went down to the place where the paper was. He picked it up and it was the cure hydrophobia. The cure was written on the paper. - Collector
- Sean Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Belturbet, Co. Cavan
