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Alike unto Oracular Wisdom · @richardmcsweeney
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We will be thinking about it and looking forward to next week’s one.
Me too; me too. Safe home now, and give my hello to your parents. Oh, and switch back on the volume on your mobile phones before you leave the school grounds.
We will, Teacher. Bye.
Goodbye.

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Alike unto Oracular Wisdom · @richardmcsweeney
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And that night as Joanie lay in bed she wondered if she would meet the little girl again the next day, but she didn’t. In fact, she never again met her, but in her heart she always treasured their meeting.
And that, Students is today’s story.
Thank you; thank you Teacher.
That was a great story.

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Alike unto Oracular Wisdom · @richardmcsweeney
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You would have liked her, Mammy; she was very nice. I once though, when collecting reeds down by the river, thought I heard the sound of woman crying and calling out what sounded like the name Bridget. But there was nobody there. Perhaps I had imagined it, I thought or that perhaps it was the sound of the wind in the reeds.

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Alike unto Oracular Wisdom · @richardmcsweeney
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And there have been stories too that a little girl; a very beautiful little girl, just like you described Joanie, has been seen down through the years between the two bends on the road. It seems that is where she used come up from the river path to join with the road to school. Did you ever see her, Mammy? No, Joanie, I never saw her.

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Alike unto Oracular Wisdom · @richardmcsweeney
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And the story goes, Joanie that her mother would every afternoon go down to where the small old narrow rickety wooden footbridge used to be to wait patiently for her little girl to come along singing her happy songs. Down through the years people have heard a woman crying down by the river but there was nobody there. People made out that it was the little girl’s mother crying and crying for her to come home.

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Alike unto Oracular Wisdom · @richardmcsweeney
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And when her husband arrived home, and when he heard the dreadful news that his one and only child; his one and only daughter was drowned and lost for ever more, lost his mind there and then, and for the rest of his life never again came outside the front door of the house.

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When she heard the heart-breaking news that her little girl was drowned; that she would never again be returning home to her, and that her body was lost and nowhere to be found, broke into such a painful and lonely crying that all who were in the house gathered were weeping rivers of tears. Even the dog was howling most mournfully.

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Alike unto Oracular Wisdom · @richardmcsweeney
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Amy, a very old man, continued Joanie’s mother, who had been out walking in the fields that same afternoon, and who had seen from a distance what had happened, and who had tried to shout but his voice was way too low to reach the little girl, brought the sad story to a neighbour, who in turn ran and told the local priest, who quickly went and told the mother.

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Alike unto Oracular Wisdom · @richardmcsweeney
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The water was too deep however for the little girl, and so she was swept along by the current and was drowned. Oh, Mammy that is very sad. And the saddest thing of all, Joanie; oh, the saddest thing of all was that her body was never found.
Oh, Teacher that is so very sad. My eyes are full of tears.
Mine too, Teacher.
And me too.
We are all in tears, Teacher.
I know; I know it is a most sad and tragic tale.
And what happened then, Teacher?

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Alike unto Oracular Wisdom · @richardmcsweeney
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As they crossed, suddenly there was a creaking, cracking breaking sound! Wo and behold; yes; wo and behold, Joanie, but didn’t the weight of the cow cause the bridge to break and both she and the little girl fell right into the river. Although the water was a bit deep, the cow was able to quickly stand up and walk out of it without a bother, as if nothing had happened, and straightway started eating grass on the bank.

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Normally, cows would just walk across a river if it was shallow, but for some unknown reason, perhaps thinking it was a little too deep for her, didn’t she decide instead to cross over the small old narrow rickety wooden footbridge. The little girl not thinking there was anything to it, decided to follow on to the bridge behind the cow. After all, she was used to seeing grownups walking after cows.

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Alike unto Oracular Wisdom · @richardmcsweeney
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On her way home, she found herself walking behind a cow that had somehow jumped a ditch, and was a bit lost. As you know, cows walk away on to wherever there is some nice grass to be found. And it is most likely that she saw some across on the other side of the river.

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Alike unto Oracular Wisdom · @richardmcsweeney
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Her daddy had been away since the day before on some business and wouldn’t be returning until later that night. Her mammy had as usual told her little girl to be very careful when crossing the bridge, and to come home to her safe and sound. The little girl went off to school on her own and safely crossed the bridge. Her teacher later mentioned that she was a bit anxious all day about her mother.

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Her mother would always walk down to the riverside with her to make sure she crossed over safely on the bridge, and she would always be waiting for her there when she came to crossing back over it in the afternoons. Now of a morning, Joanie, her mother wasn’t feeling very well, and wasn’t able to go down to the riverside with her.

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Alike unto Oracular Wisdom · @richardmcsweeney
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Now it seems the little girl used love to walk to school on her own, and just like you, Joanie, she used love to take her time going to school and returning home. The only thing is that she used have to cross the river each time by a small old narrow rickety wooden footbridge.

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Her mother leaned back in the chair with astonishment at Joanie’s story for she knew there was some history there; some story coming from the past. And so her mother told her this very sad story of how over a hundred years before there were people living in a house on the hillside across on the other side of the river. The couple who lived there had only one child; a little girl.

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Alike unto Oracular Wisdom · @richardmcsweeney
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Her mother was surprised to see her home so early and wondered why. After sitting down she told her mother all about what had happened on her way to school in the morning; how she had met this beautiful little girl named Bridget, and how they had walked along the road together chatting hand in hand, and how she had vanished into thin air, and how that her friends didn’t see her at all.

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When school was over she was anxious to reach the corner house so that she could run to the space between the bends to see if the little girl would still be there sitting on the mossy stone ditch as she had been in the morning. But there was no little girl sitting on the stone ditch. She waited around for a few minutes and then decided to run home, and to tell her mother all about it.

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She was a hundred percent sure that she had met her and that they had walked along together hand in hand, and were chatting about the animals, and the flowers, and the trees, and the sky. All day long at school she couldn’t get the morning’s encounter with the little girl out of her mind.

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Joanie ran to her friends and anxiously asked them: Didn’t you see the little girl that was walking along the road with me hand in hand. What little girl, Joanie; what little girl? You mustn’t be fully awake yet. As they half walked and ran down the village street, Joanie was more silent than usual for she was thinking to herself about the little girl she had met.

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