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School: Collon (roll number 14579)

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Collon, Co. Louth
Teacher:
Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0676, Page 263

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    but not for sale, they are made for home use.
    If a person sat with his legs crossed "it is said to him "you are sitting like a tailor."
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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  2. Local Tailors

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    Once there lived up at the "Stream" a tailor named Peakes commonly called tailor Peakes. One day he was working hard by the window on a Summers evening, so he had the window open. Just then a circus was passing through.
    An elephant was loose and he came to the window where the tailor was working, he put in the end of his trunk and the tailor gave him a "prod" of his needle, the elephant turned, and walking over to where the pool of water is, he filled his trunk, then coming
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. clothing and accessories (~2,403)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy O' Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drogheda Road, Co. Louth