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   house on fire what four eminent me would you mention? Answer. Laurie, Dickens, Howitt[?], burns.
   11) How many hairs are in a cat?
   Answer. None. Because they are all out side.
   12) What tree grows nearest the sea?
   Answer the beech.
   13) How many sticks go to the building of a crows nest? Answer None they are all carried.
   14) What four letters would frighten a thief Answer O, i, c, u,.

   

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2. Local Happenings

   

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   Wonderful things happen in connection with conflagrations lolally. In the troubled times the country was destroyed by fire. Lots of houses were burned. The largest buildings in Smithboro at that time were destroyed. These were the Old Hall and the Guard's Barrack. The Black - and - Tans destroyed

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   Topics

   1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   May Mc Gorman

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Mullaglassan, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Máire Ní Ghormáin

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   48

   Address

   Mullaglassan, Co. Monaghan