School: St Patricks Convent, Kilkenny (roll number 10478)
- Location:
- Cill Chainnigh, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Sr. M. Dominic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0855, Page 286
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- A Fireside Story
In the month of January as we were happily sitting round the fire on snowy night we were telling stories.
Our Cook a goodhearted girl told as a nice story. There was once a priest who lived in a lonely little house about a half a mile from the village church. His surroundings were very cruel to him or at least most of them.
One night this priest was going to give a dying person the last Sacraments. People who were living nearby knew this and they made up their minds to kill him. They knew he had to past a huge tree and so they cut it down and then(continues on next page)
