School: An Dubh-Chearn (roll number 9534)

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   “There are two tailors in my district. One of them work in a shop and comes home at night...”

   

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   as the wool is very dear. There is no thread spun at home and there is no spinning wheel in my district. Black clothes is warn at funerals and for a year after the person's death. Blue or white clothes are worn at weddings and the men wear black swallow tail coats and black poplin ties and white waistcoats and belts. There is an old song connected with tailors. "If ever you marry a tailor Your dancing days are done, He'll make you dig the potatoes And carry out the manure."

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   “There was once a man and he started to level a ditch. When he had it nearly leveled. He saw a little...”

   

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   There was once a man and he started to level a ditch. When he had it nearly leveled he saw a little

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