School: Easgéiphtine (B.) (roll number 2039)
- Location:
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Donncha Mac Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 268
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There are a lot of people going around walking and in cars. Dan Ryan goes around and he sells potatoes. A middle aged woman goes around selling things. The call her "Mary walk easy" because she always walks very easy. A man goes around with a bag in his back. He sells laces Prayer Books, and other thingsHe always walks and he is a very small man He sleeps in a hay-house and he is a very healty man. There are others going around also. There is another man going around and his name is Poor Jack, he neve sells anything but he is always looking for charity, and what ever you would give him he would be back in a week Long ago a little man went around, and his name was Paddy Boydike. He took he got also. He came around once a year.(continues on next page)
