School: Béal Átha na Sluagh (Buachaillí)

Location:
Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Liam P. Mac an Bháird
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    the plate now and tell her you are thankful for the dinner she gave the other man. The man got up and as he was going in the door he was just going to say he was thankful when he got a clout of a potstick on top of the head. Then the lad that had no dinner jumped on the lad and nearly killed him. When he went home his wife saw that he had a black eye and she was not long giving him another for being so foolish.
    Told by - Tom Murray,
    Cullagh.
    Written by - Tom Casey,
    Mackney,
    Ballinasloe.
    11:11:'37
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.