School: Attymass B.
- Location:
- Attymass, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: P. Ó Flannghaile
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- (continued from previous page)the pigs and Jack said "the doubling of a grain of corn for an hour" as he was going to have it well out of him. The jobber said that "he did not understand the doubling of a grain of corn" and Jack said "I will make you."
He started doubling the corn saying a "fistful and a fistful, that's two fistfuls, four fistfuls, eight fistfuls, sixteen fistfuls, thirty two fistfuls, that's a sheaf; a sheaf, and a sheaf, that's two sheaves, four sheaves, eight sheaves, sixteen sheaves, thirty two sheaves, thats a stook, a stook, and a stook that's two stooks, four stooks, eight stooks, sixteen stooks, thrity two stooks, that's a stack; a stack and a stack that's two stacks, four stacks, eight stacks, sixteen stacks, thirty two stacks, that's a haggard, and a haggard, and a haggard, that's two haggards, four haggards, eight haggards, sixteen haggards, thrity two haggards, that's a village." Stop said the jobber and he had to give him sixtyfour pounds for the pigs. The jobber was never seen again at a fair and Jack went home very proud. Story told by.
Michael Hughes (age 43)
Kilgellia
Attymass.
- Collector
- Edward Devers
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Michael Hughes
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Kilgellia, Co. Mayo
