School: Tobar (B.)
- Location:
- Tober, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: C. Ó Maoltuile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0808, Page 065
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- (continued from previous page)place. He got up on the wrong trams the whole day. When he got down off a tram, h got up on another. He went astray. He was very vexed with himself. At last he got up on the right tram. He was cursing on it. A priest was on the tram. The priest told him that he was going to hell and not to a place. John told the man to stop the tram. He got down.
- Once there was a man who lived near a wood. One day he went through the wood looking for a firing. He selected a large branch that was hanging over a river.
He climbed up and sat on the outside of the branch while he cut it. When the branch was cut, he fell with it into the river.
Then there was a man passing by and the man in the river asked: "Am I dead or alive?". He told him he was dead. He lay there until two men put him on a door to take him home. WHen they came to a cross-roads, they did not know which way to go.
The man on the door sat up and said:- "I go this road."
The two men got frightened and(continues on next page) - Collector
- Thomas Stone
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynamuddagh, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- John Stone
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Ballynamuddagh, Co. Westmeath
