School: Cnocán an Teampaill, Ros Gréine

Location:
Knockantemple, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Nic Aodhagáin
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  1. A man was travelling in a train he was smoking a pipe a lady got in at the next stop with a little dog in her arms. She did not like the man to be smoking and she threw the mans pipe out the window.
    Then the man threw the little dog out the window and when the train stopped at the next station ten miles farther on the little dog was running after the train with the pipe in his mouth.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Burke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballydoyle, Co. Tipperary