School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 113
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There was once a man named Mr. Shea who tried all plans to keep the crows from eating his potatoes. A neighbouring man told him to put an umbrella in the field and that it would keep away the crows. So he put up the umbrella. The night was wet and windy and when he got up the next morning the crows were under the umbrella and were not afraid of it.
- One fine day in the middle of the night, two dead men got up to fight two blind men stayed looking on Two cripples running for the police and two dummies shouting hurry up.
