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School: Cavangarden (roll number 16511)

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Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Rebecca C. R. Mitchell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1030, Page 7

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    This is the story of a man sending a boy for a loaf of bread. Another boy who was in the house said if you send me for a sixpenny loaf I will bring you back sixpence. So [he] went to buy the loaf and he gave the man in the shop sixpence and he brought the sixpenny loaf back to the man. He gave the man sixpence in the shop and he brought home the sixpenny loaf.
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    Once upon a time there were a man and woman and they were very poor. They had only one cow. One evening the cow strayed away after dinner-time[.]
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    May Carberry
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tullyhorky, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr James Love
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Mrs Carberry
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tullyhorky, Co. Donegal