School: Castletowngeoghegan (C.) (roll number 2093)
- Location:
- Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: C. Ní Chonaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0734, Page 360
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A Funny Story (continued)
“Once there live a man who could not speak.”
(continued from previous page)him. He was very anxious to be cured because he wanted to get married. He heard about a man who cured a lot of people so he went to him. He was told to speak to at least four people every day for two months. When he was going home no one would speak to him because they thought he had lost his mind. At last he saw one man coming towards him, wearing a beautiful silk hat and carrying a cane in his hand. The man was delighted when he saw him coming smiling. The two began to talk and linked each other up and down the platform. This gentleman showed him a lot of big buildings, and told him he was the Lord Mayor of that place. After a while they said they would rest themselves in the waiting-room but instead of resting themselves the Lord Mayor tried to lock the other man in, but he got locked in himself. The train arrived immediately and the man got into the empty carriage and hid under the seat for fear the Lord Mayor, who was really a man that had broken out of the Mental Hospital would follow him. A(continues on next page)