School: Ardfinnan (B.), Cahir (roll number 16077)
- Location:
- Ardfinnan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: W. J. Nugent
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0571, Page 206
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- One day when a boy was going home from school, he put a stone on the road, and covered it with his cap without any of the other boys seeing him. The next boy that came along gave a kick to the cap and broke his toe, and in the middle of all his pain he said, "It was lucky I had not my new boot on me when that happened."
- In olden times tailors would not cut out on Monday.People never shaved or cut hair on a Monday because they believed that hair cut on a Monday would never grow again.People consider it unlucky to get married on a Monday.People would not open a grave on Monday; they would dig the first sods on Sunday.(continues on next page)
