School: Coill-Chéim (roll number 9044)
- Location:
- Calhame, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Seán Mac Cuinneagáin
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- (continued from previous page)could put his keg into the empty one, and put the key in under a flag outside the door. Paddy thanked him and started off again. He did as the gauger told him and he found the two kegs in the office. Paddy wondered how the gauger's was [compared]? with his own. He sat down on the keg and drank his fill. He then put the gauger's keg into the bag with his own and sold the two in Nancy Mc Hugh's. He then came home again and made a nice song which is still in existence of how Paddy tricked the Gauger.
- Once there lived in the town of Ballyshannon a famous doctor named Shiels. In those days motorcars were not as plentiful as they are at present, and a person going on a journey had to walk or go on horseback. On one occasion this doctor had to visit a patient in Ballymote in the County Sligo.
When on his way, there came a snow shower and he took shelter in a house by the roadside.The inmates of the house told him to take his horse into the kitchen. In a bed in the corner lay a young man whose end seemed to be very near. The doctor inquired into the circumstances of his disease. He told the doctor he had been visited by many doctors but none of them would give him any relief, and he had often a mind to get Doctor Shiels only he always heard that neither God nor man could pay him(continues on next page)
