School: Porturlan
- Location:
- Porturlan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Mc Tiernan
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0964, Page 330
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Porturlan
- XML Page 330
- XML “A Funny Story”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- A Funny Story
Johnny was eating his breakfast and in very bad humour. His wife asked him what was wrong, I am afraid said Johnny that somebody is stealing the potatoes. I found a heap opened and potatoes scattered about, but I will watch the heap to night and if the thief comes back I will shoot him. Johnny spent the rest of the day practising with the gun and succeeded in killing a blackbird and a sparrow. When at last night had come Johnny put the gun on his shoulders and stood guard. In about an hour he heard noises in the hedge, and saw a dad form moving towards the heap of potatoes. I have you now, said Johny and he called on the thief to halt, but he passed no remarks and tore away at the heap. I will fire over his head said Johnny, and frighten him, he then fired, after which he heard the thief moaning, oh, said Johnny, I must have killed him and he ran home and told his wife that he had killed a man in cold(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cecil Finlay
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Sruhagh, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr F. Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 28
- Address
- Sruhagh, Co. Cavan
