School: Collon (roll number 14579)
- Location:
- Collon, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhathúna
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“A certain man was working in Dublin, and he was stopping in a boarding house.”
(continued from previous page)the slops out of his cup, over his shoulder and unto the wallpaper, one day the landlady said to him, wait a moment Paddy until I get you the slop boul, and he said, "Dont bother dirtying your nice china boul for me," "I could throw it twice as far.
One night a number of men were drinking in a bar, and there was one particular man and he was spitting across the floor, the bar maid left down a spitoon, but he spat beside it, she moved it to the other side, and he spat the opposite, she kept moving it about, until at last the man got angry, and he said to her, If you don't take that thing to hell out of that i'll spit in it.
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- Collector
- Kitty Hanratty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Collon, Co. Louth