School: Áth Liag (roll number 15308)
- Location:
- Athleague, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Máirtín
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- A Funny Story
A man went too the town to get a bacon-box He went into a certain shop and asked for it. The shopkeeper said for it. The shopkeeper said he could have one, which was outside in the store. The man himself went out to where the box was and found two boxes. In one of them there were a piece of bacon but the man did not see it. He took the one with the bacon and walked home carrying it in a cart
In the meantime the shopkeeper missed the bacon and sent a messenger after the man. He was half-way home when the messenger caught on to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Liam Mac Namara
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Athleague, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Mac Namara
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Athleague, Co. Roscommon
