School: Tullogher, Ros Mhic Treoin (roll number 14648)
- Location:
- Tullagher, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Mrs Winnie Murphy
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- (continued from previous page)to put in his egg, so she made the remark one day to him "I'm afraid I boiled your egg too hard." "It's all right, ma'am" he answered, "I'll soften it with butter."Next day she boiled the eggs too soft or rare, but the tailor used as much butter, so se remarked, "I'm afraid I boiled your egg too soft." "It's alright, ma'am" he answered, "I'll harden it with butter.__________________
Inquiries for a person's health. In some places they say "How are you?" or "How is the health? But in Co. Laoighise where I taught for some time the query for your health was "Are you stout?" I taught near Montrath, and another teacher from the west also taught in a school between Montrath and Maryborough.On returning to teach after her holidays her landlady kindly inquired "Is your mother stout?" "Oh no" answered the teacher, "she is a thin woman; I am much stouter than she is."