School: St Canice's, Aghaboe (roll number 16939)
- Location:
- Aghaboe, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Aine Ní Dhubhlaoigh
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- About twenty years ago there lived in Ballycuddy a woman named Mrs Whelan. She was very funny and always had god sayings. The night of the big storm nineteen hundred and three when she saw the wind taking the roof off the house she ran out and put the harrow on it. In the morning she said to a neighbour"God was good and merciful but the harrow was my darling."
- What's full and holds more?
A pot full of potatoes when your pour water in.
One half dead; the other half living, and a tail wagging?
A dog with his head in a pot.
Headed like a thimble, tailed like a rat, you may guess for ever, but you could not guess that?
A pipe.
Patch upon patch, without any stitches
