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CONACCIR.— (I) We have heard of two occasions during, the nineteenth century on. which grain-crops were .so poor in parts of Ireland that they were pulled out of the ground instead of -being cut by scythe * or sickle. We are unable to give -the dates, but we imagine that this occurred in or about the famine yearof 1816. (2) The legend that St. Columcille cursed the roosters so that they should not crow has no foundation in fact.
KNOWLEDGE.— The quotation you refer to is from ' < 1 Romeo and Juliet ', act ii, scene 2 : in a - name.? That whioh we call a rose, by any -other name would smell as sweet '.- l " '
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 36, 5 September 1907, Page 21
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115ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 36, 5 September 1907, Page 21
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