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School: Naomh Maolmaodhóg, Dúndealgan (roll number 15258)

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Dundalk, Co. Louth
Teacher:
S. Ó Máirtín
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  1. The Poor Donkey

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    About ten years ago a professor gave a lecture in Ardee on temperance. When he got up on the platform he said,
    "If you put a bucket of water beside a bucket of whiskey and get a thirsty donkey and put him beside the two buckets which will he drink?"
    The people who were backing the professor answered "the water" but a farmer at the back of the hall shouted up:
    "That's because he's an Ass!"
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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