School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máthais Íde
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0702, Page 217
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- (continued from previous page)a shilling was called a bob, two shillings was called a cross, and £1 was called a quid.
- When a servant wants to leave the job she is in, and to go to a new job she goes and tells her mistress and adds "a tethered sheep never grows fat" The mistress replies, "And a rolling stone gathers no moss."
"Every man to his fancy And me to my Nancy" as the woman said when she kissed the cow.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Bertha Mullen
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
