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School: Allenwood

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Allenwood, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 165

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    ghost, that he might need it as his own friends might have forgotten him. When the mass was said the man got well, and he never went to play cards any more.
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  2. A Funny Story

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    There was a man coming home from a fair and he got drunk. He lay down on the road and a car came up and when over his head and cut it off. That night it freezed and his head got frozen on to his body again and he got up and went home and never knew
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Flynn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derrymullen, Co. Kildare