School: Behymore
- Location:
- Behy More, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Gallchobhair
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"She wasn't very particular about that." he said.
"If she had time she would make enough to do a few days, and if she hadn't she would make a few cakes every day."
"Wouldn't the bread be very hard then," I said.
"Not a bit too hard for us, do you know that our teeth were far better than yours and any other child's teeth are nowadays." Micheal answered.
"How could that be", I asked.
"Well", said Micheal. "In the first place ye eat so much toffee and sweet things nowadays that the best teeth in the world wouldn't stand ye." "When I was a gasúr, I never ate any sweet-things, only potatoes and buttermilk or stirabout or oatmeal bread and signs on me, look at the fine set of teeth I have."
I asked him if he knew how to make ry bread,, but he said all he knew about it was that it was very nice to eat.
- Informant
- Michael O' Hara
- Gender
- Male
