School: An Druipseach
- Location:
- Dripsey, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Tuathaigh
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Replacing the soil carefully he went off, the gentleman needless to say, thoroughly enjoying the proceedings.
To continue the joke further, the latter now took away the sixpence replacing it with a sovereign.
The fool soon returned and kneeling down addressed the coins with the same motherly solicitude as before,"Are ye nice and warm?".
Seeing the gold coin, he jumped up in dismay, quickly pocketed the three coins with a pathetic observation, "Oh, ye are getting yellow "jaunders"".
(Yellow "jaunders" is the local nomenclature for the disease known as jaundice).- Collector
- Mary Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Agharinagh, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick Hanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Dripsey Model Village, Co. Cork