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School: Rahan (roll number 9096)

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Rahan, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire Ní Cholmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0370, Page 022

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    Once upon a time Paddy the Irish man was working for a farmer. The farmer told him after breakfast to go out in the field ploughing and then he himself would be out after him in an hour or two, Paddy went away as he was told and after a short time the farmer went out in the field after Paddy.
    Farmer - "Well Pat how are you getting on?"
    Paddy - "Great, but I want to tell you that your wife is no good."
    Farmer - "Why?"
    Paddy - "Well the bread that I got for my breakfast this morning was so hard it showed she is not able to bake at all."
    Farmer - "She baked bread before you were ever born."
    Paddy- "Well sir I expect that must have been the bread I got for my breakfast this morning."
    A man carried his mother one day for Cork on a visit. After a few hours
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Agnes O Leary
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lavally Upper, Co. Cork