School: Woodland (roll number 8464)
- Location:
- Woodland, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mrs Crossan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1085, Page 32
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- (continued from previous page)you I am quite content if I only knew the way you went.
- Once upon a time, some men went into a house for tea. The butter they got had a very bad taste. The same men went in a second day, and go the same butter but none of them partook of it. The third day they went back again and got the same butter. One of them lifted up the butter and threw it up to the roof where it stuck. When the woman of the house came in she asked, "Oh where is the butter". One of men looked up to the roof and said. "Speak up for yourself you are old enough".
- Collector
- Susan Murray
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Castlebane, Co. Donegal
- Paddy the Irishman and a Scotchman named Jock came over to Ireland. As the had had a long journey they were tired and sat down to rest behind a petrol tank. Paddy the Irishman said to Jock, What is that? Jock replied I dinny ken and Paddy said that is was the biggest dinner can he ever saw,
- In Ireland in olden times people were very superstitious and believed in ghosts and fairies. There is a funny story told of a man and his wife who lived in county Cavan.
One winters evening as they were sitting at a nice cosy fire(continues on next page)
