School: Montpelier, O'Brien's Bridge (roll number 14875)
- Location:
- Montpelier, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Liam Ó Tuama
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“Once upon a time there was a poor old woman going around, and one night she went into a chapel to sleep.”
(continued from previous page)On the next morning the poor woman told a man. The next night at about one oclock the man went to answer Mass. The Priest said, "Now I can go to heaven, I am for the last three hundred and sixty-five years trying to find someone to answer Mass."
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“Once upon a time there lived a poor old wood-cutter, who was very poor.”
Once upon a time there lived a poor old wood-cutter, who was very poor. He had a good wife to look after him. He used to go to a wood cutting trees. One day he heard a step it was no louder than the hop of a robin. He looked around him and saw a beautiful lady standing before him. What are you doing here she asked. I am eating my dinner and badly I need it too, said he. If I fill your can with gold would that please you, indeed it would said the wood-cutter. The lady filled the can. The man ran home for a bucket, but when he came back the lady was gone, and a handful of leaves in the can. - Collector
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“There was a man one time.”
There was a man one time. He used to go every night playing cards to another house, and this night they were playing away when the cards were taken out of(continues on next page)