School: Ballyfin, Mountrath (roll number 15537)
- Location:
- Ballyfin, Co. Laois
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla Fhionáin
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- (continued from previous page)of Lady Coote over at the time from England. One of them came in to see the Irish eating. There were five or six of them sitting around a great big pot of porridge eating it with big iron spoons.
The Englishman counted the number of times one man dipped into the pot. He came out to his friend and said.
"My! I saw a man in there eating sixty shovelfuls of horse-corn.
"Did he die after it?" said his friend. the other man said.
"Die hell," he'd beat you and I after it.
