School: Lorg an Iarla (roll number 13590)
- Location:
- Lurganearly, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Ní Choilldubh
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- It was the time of the Boer War,
An old woman used to come to Castleblayney every year to buy a twig,
The twig lasted her one year
This day she came to the shop keeper and asked him for a twig, She looked at it and said she would take this particular one.
She asked the price of it, On being told she said "Oh; that is more than you charged me the last year, for the same twig"
"But you must know" said the shop-keeper that there is a war on now and that is why it is dearer than the last year".
"Oh" said the woman "And are they fighting with twigs?"
- Collector
- Saidee Martin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Skerrymore, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr George Blackwood
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 59
- Address
- Ballynarea, Co. Armagh
