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Virginia, Co. Cavan
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Mrs B. Farrelly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 451

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1000, Page 451

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    About here travelling folk are called basket-men.
    The travelling folk sell combs, laces, needles, and glasses. They go about walking and some of them go on bicycles. Some of them sell the making of clothes. They are called peddlers. They sell cloth for suits, or womens coats. The bask men sell collar-pins, shirt-buttons, and tie pins. They are not very poor. There are different kinds of travelling folk, some of them sell tins. They are called tinsmith or tinkers.
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    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. public infrastructure
          1. roads (~2,778)
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    English