School: Johnswell, Kilkenny (roll number 3247)
- Location:
- Johnswell, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: D. Ó hÉigceartaigh
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“One night as a party of people were cardplaying in a farmers house a strange man came in and started to play with them.”
One night as a party of people were cardplaying in a farmer's house a strange man came in and started to play with them. At first the strange man lost nearly all he had but after a few games he started to win all and the people had stopped playing according as they were broke except the man of the house who was partner with the strange man. Then they started to play against each other and the man of the house was broke. Then the stranger told him to post his farm of land and he said he would. So before they started to play for the farm the stranger said he was hungry and he told the man to make a cup of tea for him. The farmer called his wife who was(continues on next page)
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