School: Achadh Bolg (roll number 3588)

Location:
Aghabullogue, Co. Cork
Teacher:
(name not given)
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  1. There once lived an old woman and her family was in America and they sent her some money for Christmas. As she never had tasted tea before she purchased some. She asked the assistant in the store how she would make tea. He told her to put it into a teapot and draw it. When she went home she did as she was told but it was cold water she put in and when she had done this she tied a cord to the handle of the teapot and drew it around the house but the tea was not a bit to her liking.
    She told her neighbour about it and she advised her to boil the tea, so she put tea and water into
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty O' Connor
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Woodfield, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mr D. O' Sullivan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Woodfield, Co. Cork