School: Mostrim (B.) (roll number 2083)
- Location:
- Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Richard Hyland
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0770, Page 365
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- (continued from previous page)what to do played another trick on a tea man.
Himself and some of the boys from Cranly were chatting one night by the fireside about how they would trick the tea man.
They thought of a plan they made up a bed underneath his kitchen window and put the old man to bed and dressed him up as one who was dead and placed a table with seven lighted candles alongside the bed and when the tea man called he asked for the boss of the house and one of the boys said "Oh he is after dying poor soul will you forgive him his debts to you so the the man answered "I'll forgive him anyway and he knelt down by the bedside where the dead man lay and showed signs of sorrow so the tea man started off and never came to that old man anymore.
- Collector
- Joy Moorhead
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
