School: Threemilehouse (roll number 342)
- Location:
- Three Mile House, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: I. Mc Eneaney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0953, Page 270
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- (continued from previous page)At the entrance he had the card up and on this card was written "what is it that men and money can't do". One day a tramp man came along the road and seeing this wrote on it. "All the men and money in Adam's race could not put a pretty on Colonel Dawson's face."
- Once upon a time a man and his wife lived together on a small farm. They were very poor, the Landlord was wanting the rent. The only animal they had was a small cow and did not want to sell her. They had also some flax but were too poor to buy a handle to scutch it. They gathered up the little black cow's milk for a fortnight to churn it and sell the butter to buy a handle for to scutch their flax. One day at the end of the fortnight they were churning when in stepped a man. They were all scared for they thought he was the Landlord and started explaining how poor they were. We cannot get money to buy a handle to scutch our flax. If we had a handle we could scutch our flax and pay you the(continues on next page)
