School: Shrule (roll number 7795/7796)
- Location:
- Shrule, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0038C, Page 02_023
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- There was once a man living in Dublin and he got very poor. One day he made up his mind to ask Dan O Connell if he knew how he could make a living and he told him to cut off his big toe and bury it in a mountain a mile away and to go to a man who sold tobacco and bet with him for two thousand pounds that he hadn't a roll of tobacco from his big toe to his head. He did so and got the two thousand pounds
- Collector
- John Tedders
- Gender
- Male
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- John Tedders
- Gender
- Male
