School: Lough Arrow
- Location:
- Lough Arrow, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cathal Ó Dubhghaill
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It is said that it is a true story and that man is dead about forty years now.
There was once a man who was not feeling well and so he consulted the doctor who said "You had best confine yourself to animal food for a while, I will see you again in a week or so".
The man went home and on his way home he met a friend. He asked his friend if he knew what was animal food. "Why you fool" said his friend "what would it be but food the animals eat".
Some time after the doctor called to see the man and he asked how he was.
"Well, doctor, said the man, I got along well with the oats but the hay was a bad mess to manage."
- Collector
- Maureen Mc Cormack
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynary, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Mc Cormack
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Ballynary, Co. Sligo
