School: Castlepollard (Infants) (roll number 11469)
- Location:
- Baile na gCros, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: Mrs Davitt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0721, Page 198
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- (continued from previous page)you will make all haste". "I have your word" said the surgeon exultingly, "and as you are bound to keep it a prayer shall never cross my lips." Death, disappeared and the doctor considered that his mortal frame was hence for the endowed with an immortal life. One day he was proceeding along a bye-way when he descried a child crying beside a style.
He inquired the cause and in reply the child informed him that he was going to be examined in the Christian Doctrine by a cruel catechist, but that he had forgotten The Our Father. The surgeon touched with compassion agreed to instruct him but the moment he recited the prayer the "child" burst into a triumphant laugh and instantly transforming into the grin shape of Death, he crushed the unfortunate surgeon in a last embrace.
- Collector
- Elizabeth Davitt
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
