School: Cill Bheoláin (B.), Áth an Mhuilinn, Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Kilbolane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Séaghdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0369, Page 105a
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- (continued from previous page)Mr. Bill Linane, decided to leave his employer (in Elton), after dinner. He went upstairs & got his parcel of shirts etc.
The employer's wife: "Are you going away, William?
William: No, Ma'am, they are taking me away"
(William feared the fleas)
In another employer's house a herring was placed on one plate for William & a fellow worker. William (Bill) cut a potato & put half on one eye of the herring because, he explained, if the herring saw the two hungry men it would leave the plate.
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“Two local illeprates (Jordan and another) were in the Church...”
Two local illiterates (Jordan & another) were in the Church, at Mass. Jordan noticed that his companion had a child's pictorial prayer book.
Jordan: Why had you the prayer book - sure you cannot read?
?: How do you know?
Jordan: I never saw a priest saying Mass while standing on his head.