School: Bouleenshere (C.) (roll number 12865)

Location:
Booleenshare, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Mary A. Walsh
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  1. There was a man in this parish, (and) and he was a carpenter. He was a good working man and had a lot of money, but alas! he spent it all. So he had no shoes and he had no money to buy them.
    He went to town one day and he went in to a shoemaker's shop, and he put a pair of shoes making. Then he went to another man and put a pair of shoes making to him. He then went away home and did not return again. He knew that he would not get the(m) shoes without paying. So he thought of a plan. He sent a man to town one day, and he told him to go in to the shoemaker and to get the right shoe to fit on. He did so and there was another man going to town and he told him to go in to the other shoemaker, and to get the other, also, and he did so. The carpenter thus got both shoes, and he never pa(y)ed for them; which was wrong, of course.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Michael Kenny
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dromatoor, Co. Kerry