School: Doirín Dáimh Dheirg / Dereendafderg (roll number 13469)

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1. A Day in the Life of a Bus Conductor (continued)

   

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   time, there will be some people late for business and there be complaints. During these rush periods too I have to be careful giving change for if I am short in the evening my pay suffers.

   

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   “Many a laugh I have too when the gentry pull up in their big cars...”

   

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   16th December 1937 Many a laugh I have too when the gentry pull up in their big cars to ask me the way. "Is this the road to Castlebar my good fellow?, they say. I can direct them to any place in the county. But I laugh at them when I see their maps and worried look. And I wouldn't swop my heap of stones for the softest leather behind a driving wheel. I always get the first peep at every visitor because they go slowly. So, In the evening when I am asked who was on the car that rattled by I can

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Seán Ó Luideánn

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Doire an Daimh Dheirg, Co. Mayo