Scoil: Cortown (uimhir rolla 3113)

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1. The Bag of Lies

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   There last night about three weeks ago I received a letter of an old hag’s death. I was so surprised with the sad news that every tear that fell from the back of my stomach would split six fathoms of turf or set a mill a going. “Good boy, Jack”, said I to myself and nobody there but myself. I put my head in under my outer and my two shin bones in my pocket and I ran away for sixteen miles of the road sitting down every minute till I met an outdoor Jack Junk a mag outdoor coachman driving sixteen dad Jack asses in an empty steam-coach, well loaded with seventy five man-o’-war vessels and big magpies drinking tea till they were black in the face with hunger. “Good boy, Jack”, said I to myself and nobody there but myself, “did you hear any account of the shower of old women that fell next week”? “No man”, Sid he, “but John Marks will tell you all about it. He lives at the sign of the three flying Jack asses, up and down the street where the mad dog bit the hatchet next week

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Penelope Waters

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Ballybeg, Co. Meath

   Faisnéiseoir

   Patrick Dolan

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Moyagher, Co. Meath