School: An Páirtín
- Location:
- Parteen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Ciarán Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0599, Page 441
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- One upon a time there lived a widow and her son at the foot of a hill Her son Jack eas a very lazy boy and he never did any work’
One day his mother sent him for a packet of needles and he stuck them in a carton straw that was going his way. When the car was coming near his house he asked the man for his needles and the man said he was dreaming and when he told his mother the story she was very cross and told him to go and earn his living. And Jack went away as he was going a cross a field it began to rain and he went into a graveyard. There was a very rich man after being buried and there was a very big statue over his grave. When Jack saw the statue he said “Ah you poor fellow you must be very wet and he too off his coat and put it on the(continues on next page)
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- Mary Ryan
- Gender
- Female
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- Tom Kelly
- Gender
- Male
