School: Gleann Tochair (roll number 16611)

Location:
Glentogher, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
An tSr. Sorcha A. Ní Dhómhnaill
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    young sally rods and made a new skin for poor Neddy.
    When Spring came the wool began to grow and the sally rods began to bud, and for five years Dan got as much wool off his donkey as made clothes for him and his family and as many sally rods as made him plenty creels.
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  2. One fine day at the end of Summer Paddy the Irishman was in his own garden hunting the hens because they were eating the cabbage. He was in the worst of temper when a Yankee passed by. He stood and said "I say Paddy what have the hens done on you when you are so cross with them." In the Spring they tear the seed out of the ground
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Susie Mac Cole
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Glentogher, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Denis Toland
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    64
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    White House, Co. Donegal