School: Cill Cúlach

Location:
Kilcooly, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Séamus Mac Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0240

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0054, Page 0240

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    There was a young married couple in the parish of Leitrim one time.

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    There was once a Judge called Judge Pimplekin.

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    premeditation the cynical indifference to the result of your atrocities combined with the delight with which you have wallowed in human gore. Your comtempt for all the dictates of honesty truth pity and good faith. Your greed, ingratitude, treachery, savageness and canibalism all these things stamp you as the most unmitigated and loathsome scoundrel, monster savage and vampire that ever wallowed in the foul and fathomless quagmire of infinite and immeasurable dastardliness. It would be my (most) unspeakable duty to inflict upon you the severest penalty which the law allows, Penal servitude for life and the cat once a week, but I will disregard my palpable duty and render the whole proceeding a farce by fining you the sum of forty shillings or a month in jail.
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