School: Maio (roll number 13119)

Location:: Trohanny, Co. Meath
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also. The tinkers stay in one place, only for a night or two. Johny Mc Cann used to sell laces, and pins, and studs, and other small things. The country people used to give them an egg or a penny or some little thing. They put up a tent of wood and an oil-cloth cover and sleep under it.
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A Beggar

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Many tramps go round about this country. A man named Páid Murry comes to our house and many other houses also. When he comes into our house, he stays for about an hour.
He goes round in a cart. He sells boot laces, and hair-oil, and pictures and many other things.
Sometimes he gathers rags, and bottles, and horse-hair. He lives in Bailieborough and he is about fifty years of age.

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