School: Na Creaga

Location:
Creggs, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Liam Ó Breandáin
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    A tourist in Mayo once asked a little boy how it was that there were so many hills in Mayo.
    The little boy said that the land was so plentiful that they had to make heaps of it.
    There was once a little boy who went on a message for his mother. He went to the grocers shop, and asked for a pound of tea. The grocer said there are two kinds of tea black and green, the boy said it does not matter my mother is blind.
    There was once a man going to a football match by train. He was all the time laughing, the people asked him what he was laughing at, he said he tricked the railway company men. I bought a return
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Angie Kilby
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Creggs, Co. Galway
    Informant
    William Keaveney
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Creggs, Co. Galway