School: Kilmaganny, Thomastown
- Location:
- Cill Mogeanna, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: C. Ó Hurdail
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- One morning, when a farmer went to milk the cows, the first one he set under was after being sucked. The following morning, the same thing had happened; it so happened for a week
This night, he thought he would stay up & watch. While he was there, a hare came & began to suck the cow. He had his gun with which he wounded the hare. He followed it to a broken-down hut where he found an old woman dying from what of food.
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- A widow's son left home to seek his fortune. He crossed to a foreign land as stow-away on a ship, but was discovered before the ship was at its destination.
He was brought before the ship's officer who took compassion on him & gave him a job on board. After a time, he got promotion & was able to send a sum of money to his mother each month. - Seán & his widowed mother lived together. When he thought it time to seek(continues on next page)
