School: Ballinlig (roll number 2994)
- Location:
- Baile an Loig, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: J. Seery
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0168, Page 449
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- Long ago there were two boys and a girl in a house near here and one of the boys was silly. One of the boys and the girl went to mass and left the silly fellow in the house to get the dinner. He killed a cat for the dinner and he put it down. When the dinner was ready he put the cat on the table. When they came home they saw the cat on the table. They fired the cat out in the field and they did not eat a bit that day.(continues on next page)
- Long ago there was a woman living at the sea at Port - a - vade and it happened that there was a station in her house. She made up her mind that she would give a good breakfast to the priest and people. Tea was then novelty in the country. The woman did not know how to prepare it. When the tea was ready she threw out the tea and kept the tea leaves. The people were in the room at the breakfast and she gave them the tea leaves on plates Then the priest asked "Where was the soup"? "I threw it out" said the woman and the priest said "I would sooner the soup than the leaves".(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Dan James
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Baile an Loig, Co. Shligigh
