School: Dún na nGall (roll number 2252)
- Location:
- Donegal, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: E. E. Oldfield
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- Collector
- Mary Kirkpatrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumroosk, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Andrew Mc Gee
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 92
- Address
- Drumroosk, Co. Donegal
- A newly established merchant in Mount Charles was visited by a country fiddler who asked him if he stocked everything. The merchant answered “Oh yes, everything you can name” “Well sir please give me a yard of buttermilk.” The merchant not to be outdone got a bowl of butter and measured a yard across the counter. “There you are sir.” “Paper it up if you please” The merchant turned [?](continues on next page)