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School: Lismacaffry

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Lismacaffry, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
Ml. Ó Gamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0739, Page 327

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    The travelling people still come to our home. The travellers that come around are the tinkers, the gipsies and the beggarmen.
    The tinkers sell tin cans and porringers. They also go from house to house for food for themselves. The tinkers stay in the one place for a few days. The food they get is tea, sugar, bacon, flour and milk.
    The gipsies sell baskets, chairs and tables. They go about from house to house for food and money. [The gipsies.] The gipsies stay in the one place for a week. The beggarmen go about the country, from house to house for food and money. The food the beggarmen get is tea, sugar and bacon. The tinkers sleep in tents at night and the gipsies sleep in caravans. The beggarmen sleep in old houses along the road.
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