School: Christ Church, Castlebar (roll number 14358)

Location:
Castlebar, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
A. C. Ní Mhaitiú
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  1. A Funny Story
    A man in the village of Moínín had a great number of geese, and a fox used to take one of them nearly every morning. So the man made up his mind this night to secure them in a house. This house had a thatched roof. As usual the fox cam for a goose. He did not know how to get into the house where the geese were. So he thought of a plan and this was it. He went up on the roof of the house and bored a
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT0033: The Fox Plays Dead and is Thrown out of the Pit and Escapes
    AT0041: The Wolf Overeats in the Cellar
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Carson
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloontybaunan, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Carson
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloontybaunan, Co. Mayo