School: Killummod
- Location:
- Killummod, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Bhioscáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0237, Page 309
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- (continued from previous page)ever we got from the same neighbour. "All right" said John, "we will try" although he was not at all pleased. He placed the bonham at the sows tail and started throwing milk down the sows back and it ran down the sows tail. The bonham finding it coming caught the tail in its mouth and continued sucking away. This continued for a week and strange enough the man tells us that milk came from the sow through her tail and that the bonham was better fed than any of those fed on the other teats.
