School: Baile Lochnáin
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0531, Page 164
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- (continued from previous page)At the "Sign of the Bell" on the road to Clonmel,
Paddy Hegarty kept a neat cabin.
Sold pigs meat and bread,
Kept lodgers as well.
And was liked in the County he lived in.
Poor Pat and his wife they struggled through,
On week days he mended the ditches,
But on Sunday he dressed in a coat of the best
And his pride was his old Leather Breeches.
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“One day a painter was painting a Public House and over the sign board he made....”
One day a painter was painting a Public House and over the sign board he made a drawing of a bee-hive with a bee going into it. Over the hive he wrote:-
"All ye weary travellers who pass by come in and taste the flavour of my honey".
Larry Dillon happened to pass and read the sign and he wrote under it with chalk "If I went in that bee he would me sting if I had not the money"
