School: Gort na Léime (roll number 13012)
- Location:
- Gortaleam, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0037, Page 0345
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- (continued from previous page)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.
- 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(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Donnellan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Cloonmore, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Edward Weston
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killavoher, Co. Galway
