School: Ballycallan (roll number 7050)
- Location:
- Ballycallan, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: P. J. O'Hara
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- (continued from previous page)people, who he was to evict, were very sorry for the horse. They said what a fine jumper he was and, if he had to see the gate in time, he'd have cleared it. But a few of them knew that the gate was open till the horse was within 2 yards of it and the man that closed that gate was never known and the evictions never took place and the high wall was never built.
- How long did Cain hate his brother? As long as he was able. What would smell most when you would go into a Chemist's shop? Your nose. When is a horse not a horse? When he is turned into a field? What is it that you would suck its hole when its head is hot? A pipe. Two boys of Johnny O'Deary went for switches to pull, the switches they pulled up, they left them still there, the switches they pulled not, they brought them home. I declare? Two crows fighting. As round as an apple, as deep as a cup, all the king's horses could not pull it up? A well. A humpy back father and a hollow back mother(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John O' Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorteenteen, Co. Kilkenny
