School: Shrule (roll number 7795/7796)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0038C, Page 01_012
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- There was once a man and he was working for another man and he got sacked. Then he went looking for more work. It was summer and flies were very plentiful. He came to a bunch of flies and he hit them with a board he had. (He killed them with a board he had) Then he wrote on the board "killed a hundred with one (board) blow". It was not ling until he came to a town and got work from a contractor.
All the men would build in one day would be knocked the next day. This night the boss told Jack to watch. A About twelve o'clock three(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cristeoir Ó Buachacháin
- Gender
- Male
