School: Anacarty (C.) (roll number 8957)
- Location:
- Annacarty, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Bríghid Ní Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0581, Page 328
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- (continued from previous page)pardoned him again.
- A farmer once hired a boy to take cattle with him to the fair. The boy consented and said "you must give me plenty meat for my dinner."
The farmer agreed, and said he had a young bullock killed. When dinner time came, the farmer's wife gave him only two ounces of meat and a full plate of turnips.
The boy said that the farmer promised to give him plenty meat.
The woman passing it as a joke said "if i give you anymore, the bullock would be bawling inside in you." The boy was not to be put off and said(continues on next page) - Informant
- Thomas Butler
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Maudemount, Co. Tipperary
