School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 10_036
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“There were devotions in a church one evening and there were two certain boys going there.”
There were devotions in a church one evening and there were two certain boys going there. One of them used be always laughing and talking and would never listen to the priest, while the other was not so bad. This night as they were about to enter the church the priest called them and asked them why were they not conducting themselves right in the church. They did not answer him and he gave a slap in the jaw to the one that was always laughing and talking.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Gretta St George
- Gender
- Female