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School: Ballystrang (roll number 15364)

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Ballystrang, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seosamh Ó Cuinn
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    servant boy told him that that was all the number of feet a goose had. So the gentleman did not believe it. One day the both were out walking along the road and they came to a pond where a lot of geese were standing on the one foot. "Now said the servant-boy did'nt I tell you a goose had only one foot". "Hush" said the master and the geese all left down the other foot and away they went. "I knew said the master that a goose had two feet" But" said the servant if you had said 'hush' to yon one it would have
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Folktales index
    AT0921: The King and the Peasant's Son
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tessie Bonner
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballystrang, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Neil Browne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballystrang, Co. Donegal