School: Scoil na mBráthar, Calainn
- Location:
- Callan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: An Mháthair M. Síle
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- (continued from previous page)men mowing his hay. this was before the mowing machines came. Because the men wer badly fed they could not do much work, and the farmer was always scolding them.
They thought of a plan to keep him silent.
With every draw of the sythe, each man would say, "Buttermilk and whey wake (weak) all day."
The farmer then began to think that it would pay him better to go and give them a good dinner as they would now faster, so next day he told his wife to give them meat.
After dinner next day he went out, and he(continues on next page)- Collector
- Eibhlín Ní Liathán
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baunta, Co. Kilkenny