School: Lacken and Leny (roll number 3244)

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1. Local Tailor

   

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   There is one tailor in the district and his name is Frank Kilduff from Bunbrusna, Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath. This tailor does not stock cloth. When a person wants a suit made he has to bring the material to the tailor.

   

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2. Local Tailor

   

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   The tailors implements are a scissors, a thimble, a needle, and a machine. When the tailor is working he crosses his legs. Some people say it is lucky to get a suit made with a tailor who has only started business, and that it is unlucky to get one made with an old tailor.

   

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   Once upon a time there was an elephant that used to pass a tailors shop on his way to a stream for a drink. Sometimes the tailor would give him a biscuit, but one day instead of a biscuit he gave him a prod of a needle. The elephant went on to the stream got his drink and then filled his trunk with water. When passing the tailors shop on his way back he put in his trunk through the open window and scattered the water over the tailor and his

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   James Mac Cormack

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Bunbrosna, Co. Westmeath