School: Baile Mhodáin (roll number 12011)
- Location:
- Bandon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Groves
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0314, Page 189
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- Long ago my father told me a story of the inmates of the Mental Hospital.
One day some of the patients were sent out in the yard to white-wash the walls and the outhouses. A gentleman happened to come in to the yard with a pony and trap, to see a sick friend of his who was in the hospital.
He had a lovely new trap and a new set of harness. He let the pony and trap in the yard, while he was going in to see his friend.
while he was inside, the lunatics white-washed pony, trap and harness.
When the gentleman came out he was very angry when he saw his pony, trap and harness white-washed.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martha Burns
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clogheenavodig, Co. Cork
