School: Muckalee, Kilkenny (roll number 3832)

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   I am ill said the man to his wife, I am very ill and shall be soon dead if you do not fetch a doctor. The doctor soon arrived and felt his pulse and examined his tongue. He then wrote a prescription on a piece of paper which he handed to the sick man saying, "Take this to-night. Before going to bed that night, the sick man swallowed the paper and the next morning he was well.

   

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   Friday night is my delight, so is Saturday morning. On Sunday night I get a fright to think of Monday morning. Tommy came home from school with a very dirty face his mother sent him to the bathroom to wash. In a few moments Tommy reappeared, the lower part of his face was beautifully white but the upper part was untouched. "Tommy" said his mother when she saw this "go back at once and wash your

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
         1. jokes (~6,086)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Elizabeth Tynan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Muckalee, Co. Kilkenny

   Informant

   John Tynan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Muckalee, Co. Kilkenny