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Allenwood, Co. Kildare
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Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 174

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    to divide them with the other lad in a graveyard. As they were getting over the wall two buttons fell from one of their pockets. They said that they would get them coming back. So they started dividing them saying "One for me. One for you". At that time a youth was passing by. He heard them talking and he hid behind the wall to listen. He ran home and told his brother what he heard. The two came then to the wall. The two having counted them all thought of the other two. One of them said "Now the other are outside the wall". The two lads outside the wall..
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Dowling
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Allenwood Middle, Co. Kildare