School: Béal Átha Gabhann (Silvermines), Nenagh (roll number 15696)

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   “There was a poor man one time and he had to work very hard to support his wife and family”

   

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   There was a poor man one time and he had to work very hard to support his wife and family adn there ws one particular day when he looked forward to his dinner which was to be brought to the land where he worked on. But it passed well over the usual time for dinner and the poor man got tired and laid down under the ditch and finaly fell asleep. This particular place where the man laid down had been a very noted place for lizards and it was a usual thing in these days of a lizard getting into the mouth but a great stroke of misfortune befel this poor man during his slumber, this witty lizard stole his way gently around and crept gently into the man's mouth and into his stomach so when he awoke he found himself to be very weak and hungry. So his poor wife was very uneasy expecting her husband was going to die so all the local people had great sympathy for this poor woman and brought her any amount of food for the hungry man but all happened to be a failure with the man and he could not get enought to eat or drink so they had doctors opinion and all proved useless for the poor hungry many so finally a very old resident in the neighbourhood herd tell of the poor mans plight so he sent

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Grace

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Silvermines, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Francis Grace

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   51

   Address

   Silvermines, Co. Tipperary