School: Templetown
- Location:
- Templetown, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Charles D. Hearne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0870, Page 167
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- Once upon a time there was a man and any money he had he used to always drink it.One day the priest met him and says the priest to him, "Now Paddy I'll turn you into a (rat?) if you don't stop drinking.".He had a wife and her name was Mary. So one night Paddy was coming home and he was drunk. He began to shout, "Mary, Mary if you see's a little bit of a tail growing on me lock up the cat.".
- Informant
- Mrs M. B. Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 39
- Address
- Ralph, Co. Wexford
