School: Knocknagilla
- Location:
- Knocknagillagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Gilchrist
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- (continued from previous page)"For the want of work"
The policeman said to Irishman No 3,
"ye will hang for that,"
All he could say was,
"The sooner the better"
So you may be sure that they got it hard from being brought to trial on a charge of murder.
- This is an old story which my father read in a school book of his own.
This is the story.
There was once a tiny man who lost a sixpence, he looked for it on the kitchen dresser, and it wasn't there, then he looked for it on his door-step, and it wasn't there.
At last he tied a pinkish(continues on next page)
