School: Killyon (roll number 7120)
- Location:
- Killyon, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Brighid, Bean Uí Fithceallaigh
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“One day an innocent man names Jimmy Fitzgearld who lived in Killucan was going along the road when he met Father Kelsh...”
(continued from previous page)reading my office".Another day he was gathering sticks in Mr. Briscoe's fields and Mr Briscoe was always annoyed with him for pulling sticks out of his fences. So he came up to him this day wearing Knicker Bockers and he said to Jimmy "Well Jimmy are you fencing still". Jimmy looked at him for a long time then he said to him "Oh bedad, Sir, you put your legs very far out in your trousers this morning."
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