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School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)

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Adamstown, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
D. Curtis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 037

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    the money, and went home delighted.
    Jim was married to a girl be the name o' Doyle. She was a cruel harmless kind of a woman in a way.She always spoke of "Me grand Cusins," and the way wan of 'em was comen to see her, an' he came on a Saturday an' he ridin' wan of the high bicycles that they used to call the penny farthing bicycle, an' his clothes all rags, an' Johnny Evoy, the smith saw him goin' up to Moore's an' he seen Mary (that was Jim's woman)
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary L. Hughes
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Adamstown, Co. Wexford
    Informant
    Edward Evoy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Courthoyle New, Co. Wexford