School: Killeigh
- Location:
- Killeigh, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: T. Mac Amhalghaidh
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- Once a man from the West of Ireland was down in Kildare cutting corn. When he finished he went into a shop to buy some meat before he started home. The butcher had bladders hanging from the roof. The poor man did not know what they were. The butcher was a funny man, and when the poor man asked him what they were, he said they were race mare's eggs and that he would sell them for sixpence.(continues on next page)
