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School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc

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Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
An tSr. Emerentia
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0209, Page 429

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    answered. "I did". "Well" said the judge "Would you be pleased to give the remaining pound for an advice"? The miser answered "Yes" and gave it to him. "Now" said the judge "go home and visit the place as usual and pretend to yourself its there, and you will be as happy as ever" so that put an end to the miser and his gold.
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    There was once a girl named Jane White who went to England. She was a week there before she got employment. Her employer told her "The names around my house are very peculiar." First he showed her his bed-room and asked her what they called that in Ireland, and she
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT1940: The Extraordinary Names
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Betty Feely
    Gender
    Female