School: Johnswell, Kilkenny (roll number 3247)
- Location:
- Tobar Eoin, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: D. Ó hÉigceartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0863, Page 076
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“One night two men stole apples. On the way home they had to pass through a graveyard. They lost two apples at the gate.”
One night two men stole apples. On the way home they had to pass through a graveyard. They lost two apples at the gate. When they were in the graveyard they sat down to count the apples. One started to count them out loud and he said "that one for you this one for me." Two men who were passing heard them and stopped to listen. They thought it was God and devil separating the good from the bad. When the man in the graveyard was finished counting he said "what about the two at the gate," meaning the two apples they had dropped going in. The two men at the gate thought it was themselves and they ran home as quickly as the could
- Collector
- George Mc Culagh