School: Clochar na Trócaire, Carn Domhnaigh (roll number 16821)
- Location:
- Ballylosky, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Beirín Ní Bhaoighill
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- (continued from previous page)a good sight snugger than that other old bubber.
Therefore the Irish man's inscription was the better and he won the prize.
- Two neighbours called John and Mickey, who lived in the same village were great friends and they always spent their nights in the same house. On John's way to this certain house he had to pass through a graveyard which few could do alone in the darkness of the night and one night he was boasting how he could pass through the graveyard at any hour of the night, so Mickey asked him would he not be frightened if he saw a ghost, and he politely answered that he would not. The night following, Mickey tried to play a trick on him and he clothed himself in a long white sheet and waited patiently for his approach to the graveyard. At last when he heard John coming at a short distance him he began to to move to and fro raising a(continues on next page)
