School: Loughmoe (C.), An Teampoll Mór (roll number 7594)
- Location:
- Loughmoe, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0551, Page 152
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- (continued from previous page)course did not plough any, when the farmer saw it he very angry, ut the boy asked him was he tired of the bargain and he could not sau he was. Next day as he was setting out to work he asked for his dinner so that he need not come back for it. He got it. "Now" says he "you may as well give me my supper with it." The woman gave it to him. The fool went into bed. "What are you doing" said the farmer. "Oh" says he "we always go to bed after our supper." The next day they sent him to look for a cow. They told him to look in the likely places first and then in the unlikely places. In a short time the fool came back and began to tear the tatch off the house. "What are you doing" said his master. "The cow was not in the likely places and now I'm searching the unlikely places." They were savage but they could not say they were tired of him.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughmoe, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John O Dea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loughmoe, Co. Tipperary
