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School: Templetown

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Templetown, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Charles D. Hearne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0870, Page 162

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    Once upon a time there was a school master wanted to marry a lady and the lady was not willing to marry the master.
    Her Brother was going to school, and the master told him to bring him a lock of her hair and the Brother told the sister. The girl cut a lock of the calf's and put it in paper and she gave the hair to he Brother and the Brother gave it to the master.
    When the master opened the paper off the hair, the calf went round the school running after the master. The master threw away the hair and the calf went away again. This is called comehiter.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs M. Devereux
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    40
    Address
    Harrylock, Co. Wexford