School: Gort na Léime (roll number 13012)

Location:
Gortaleam, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Liam Ó Ceallaigh
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    a hair cut and charge them two shillings and they will soon keep away from you. The barber laughed at the trick for the boy got his shampoo and hair-cut free.
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  2. One day aman was out shooting he wasted all his shot and got nothing as he was coming home he saw a flock of wild geese coming over him. He did not know what to do. At last he thought of a plan. It was a muzzle loader gun he had with him so he stuck the ram rod down in the barrel and put it in a good charge of powder. He took an aim and stuck the ram in one of the wild geese. The wild goose fell down in a river that was near. The ram rod stuck in a salmon that was in the river. The salmon gave a jump and knocked the man and the man fell over on top of a hare so that he had a wild goose, a salmon, and a hare going
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT1890: The Lucky Shot
    AT1894: The Man Shoots a Ramrod Full of Ducks
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Donnellan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    14
    Address
    Cloonmore, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Edward Weston
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killavoher, Co. Galway