School: Island View, Cill an Dísirt (roll number 14196)

Location:
Tonlegee, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Micheál Ó Cochláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0605, Page 137

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  1. A great thunder storm was there one day. An old woman called Mrs O'Shea was sitting in her door when her work man came in. After another while a man came in from the grove, and he asked her could he come in from the storm and she said why not. Then he got a chair and sat down.
    After awhile he asked the woman could he take a smoke. She said why not. Then he took out a cigarette, and he began smoking. He was always looking at this woman as he could not take his eyes off her. After awhile he eat his supper with the work-men. Then the woman told the men to go to bed. Then she told this fellow to [?] in her
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