School: Morton St. Convent Nat. S. (roll number 12349)

Location:
Clonmel, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Miss Annie O' Dwyer
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  1. There must be a girl and she must be the mother of a lot of children. The children must be at each side of her. Then a woman must come to ask the mother for one of her children and the mother tells her to take the fairest one she sees. Then the woman says again. "What can your children do for me?" The mother puts all her children in a row and tells the
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