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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0630, Page 097

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    It was with pleasure that Miss O'Connor (now Mrs. McAuliffe) surveyed the sturdy new comer, Paddy Scanlon. After lunch she spent a pleasant half hour teaching him paper cutting, and when the lesson was over, she asked him to practice this pastime at home.
    At 9.45 next morning a loud knock was rapped on the school door, and Miss O'Connor went herself to find out who was there. Outside stood an old bent withered man with a hat, that might have been presentable enough (th) at one time but which now looked like a showman's hat with its innumerable mitres
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nóra Ní Cholgáin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Cáit Bean Uí Mhaolacháin
    Gender
    Female