School: Cluain Fhada (C.) (roll number 15558)
- Location:
- Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mrs. Flood
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0248, Page 122
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There was once a farmer and he had a man working. When they would be eating their meals the farmer would go out working before he would have half anough eaten and the other man would have to go with him. When the farmer would get the man working he would go into the house and eat more. The other man would have to do with all he had eaten. The man left the farmer. The farmer got another man and he used to do the same to him. This man found out the farmer's tricks. When the farmer would go eating the man would follow him and the farmer could not eat anything. One night the farmer got up and put down a pot of porridge for himself. When the(continues on next page)
