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School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)

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Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Máire Ní Gharaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 040

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  1. Story - Local Happening (continued)

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  2. A Funny Story

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    About sixty years ago there lived an old pair in the house next to mine. Their names were Nelly and James Conboy. The ruins of their house is still to be seen.
    It happened on a warm summer day she went out to ask somebody questions and find out news as she was very fond of news and asking questions. As she was going to go back into the house she saw a man coming down the hill on one of the high bicycles that was out long ago and as she never a bicycle before she got afraid and ran in and told her husband that she saw the devil coming down the hill riding on nothing because the sun
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