School: Bloomfield (roll number 10382)
- Location:
- Lavally, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Cathasaigh
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- There was once a very religious man who owned a very big farm. One day he was watching his men at work and at last he sat down by a stone-wall and began to pray. The men who were working nearby went behind the wall to hear what he was saying. While listening they heard the man say "O God, if ever I did anything bad thrown down a shower of stones on me".
The men on hearing this put their backs to the wall and threw down a shower of stones upon their employer who jumped up and said, - "O God, save me it was only joking I was".
