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School: Cross (roll number 13141)

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Cross South, Co. Roscommon
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Mártan Ó Colmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0241, Page 134

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    of his father he begged the teacher to give it to him.
    The teacher saw the joke and he decided not to make the man any the wiser so he gave him the mirror. The man went home in the evening very happy to have his fathers picture, as he thought. When he reached home he hung the mirror in his own room.
    Several times a day he went into the room to look at his father as he thought. His wife, getting curious as to what he was so interested in went to the room also.
    The first thing she saw on entering the room was the mirror. Not knowing the use of a mirror, and like her husband never having seen her own image before, she was surprised when she looked into the mirror to see a very pretty woman looking back at her
    her amazement soon turned to jealously and the first thing
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joe Giblin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 13
    Address
    Doon, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mick Giblin
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 65
    Address
    Doon, Co. Sligo