School: An Clochar, Cara Droma Ruisc

Location:
Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim / Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
An tSr. Emerentia
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  1. There was a widower named Mr Glancy living in Crohan with his daughter.
    He knew that the tea-man used to come round on Monday's for money. Mr Glancy told his daughter that he was goig to hide in the room and she was to tell the tea-man that he was gone to the fair.
    The tea-man said to the girl "Where is your father" and she said "She answered he is at the fair. "At what fair" said the tea-man. The girl shouted up to her father "What fair are you at Daddy"?
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