School: Gurteen, Durrow (roll number 7652)
- Location:
- Gorteen, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Ss. de Buitléir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0830, Page 136
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- Once upon a time there was a man who was silly. One day he was walking along the road and a man took a pound note out of his pocket. When the man doing this there was a policeman looking at him. He said to the other man "did you not feel him putting his hand into your pocket. "I did" said he "but I thought it was my own hand.
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- When the soot falls down the chimney.
When the dog drinks water.
When your corns ache.
When a robin comes into the kitchen.
When the mountains seem to be near.
When the curlews cry.
When there is a rainbow in the sky.
When the clouds seem to be moving. - Collector
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