School: Stracarne (roll number 16343)

Location:
Sragarn, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
P. Mac Aonghusa
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 445

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 445

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Stracarne
  2. XML Page 445
  3. XML “Funny Story”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. There was once an English man, and an Irish man taking one day about poultry. The English man said they had a hen that could lay two eggs a day and that they set her with twelve eggs and what do you think she did but brought out twenty four chickens - the best ones you could look at.
    Well said Paddy the Irish man my mother had an old blind hen one time, and there was a saw mill beside us, and this hen was very fond of visiting the saw
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English