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School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)

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Oilgate, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Braoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 194

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    to work. When the man came he had a stick in his hand. The other man came from behind the tombstone and said" "I am a devil" and the other man said" "Go back to your grave by the appearance of you you are like one.
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    One time a man was coming home from a neighbour's house. One of the men tied a very big piece of white paper to the man's coat, and the night was very dark. When the man was going home he saw the white paper, and he thought it was a ghost. He ran as hard as he could and the harder he ran the more noise the paper made. He looked behind
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Parker
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coolamain, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    John Parker
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coolamain, Co. Wexford