School: Corraslira
- Location:
- Corraslira, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhubhláin
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- A funny story
Once upon a time there lived two boys whose names were "Fool Tom" and his brother Jack. They worked with a very rich farmer. One day as they were minding the cattle before their breakfast Jack sent in Tom for the breakfast. At that time they had stirabout for the breakfast. When Jack was coming out with the stirabout he saw a man walking behind him, as he thought, and he threw a spoon of stirabout to him. Fool Tom said he must be hungry as he is keeping on following me. So he kept on throwing him the stirabout until he had none left.
When he came to Jack, Jack asked him "Where is my breakfast?" "I gave it to a poor hungry man who kept(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Stapleton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumman, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Dolan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrigeen, Co. Roscommon
