School: Bunlahy, Granard
- Location:
- Bunlahy, Co. Longford
- Teachers: Mrs Brady Cáit Bean Uí Bhrádaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 061
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The Tailor and the Butter About fifty years ago tailors used to go about to their customers' houses and make the clothes for the people of the house.
One May morning a tailor was going across the fields to a certain house. It was very early in the morning for the sun wasn't up, and there was a great dew on the grass. As he was going along he heard a voice. He looked up and what did he see but a woman and she sweeping the dew of the grass with something that he took to be a broom, and she saying "The whole of it to me." The tailor was a [?] going lad and says he "the half of it to me". He didn't let her hear him for he was only joking, so she passed no remarks and both of them went on about their business.
About twelve o'clock that day(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Gallaher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tober, Co. Longford
