School: Cill Mhuire (C.), Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 10395)
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máiréad Pléimeann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0449, Page 117
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- (continued from previous page)O Donoghue's rooms O Donoghue shot the corpse which was let drop immediately.
After a while he said to his wife that he should remove the body.
Líam óg who was watching stole in to the wife after a short time and said "Push in I am perished after burying that fellow". He then stole the sheet and got safely home with it.
When O Donoghue returned and said he had him buried the wife said "I thought you had that done an hour ago, were you not here. O Donoghue growing suspicious looked and found the sheet gone. "My God" he exclaimed, "We are done".
Next morning the father presented the sheet to his boss, who admitted that the boy had his trade, and he gave him half of his property but to let him live in peace.
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Three Irish men went to learn English one time. They picked up three sentences the first day - a sentence each.
On travelling along they came to a man who had been killed. A policeman came along and ashed them(continues on next page)
